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Job 30:7-8
7 Among the bushes [siyach] they brayed [nahaq]; under
the nettles [charuwl] they were gathered
together [caphach].
8 They were children [ben] of fools [nabal], yea, children [ben] of base men [shem]: they
were viler [naka'] than the earth ['erets]. KJV-Interlinear
7 'Among the bushes they cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together.
8 'Fools, even those without a name, They
were scourged from the land. NASB
Those people who have mocked Job, while in his
suffering, those people who presume that they are wise, now that someone who
was rich, is now poor as they are.
It is those same people who, when examined in detail,
reveal that they are residents of the desert of life. They are filthy, wear rags and eat roots, as
opposed to those who practice good hygiene, wear finer clothing, and eat a
better quality of foods.
Those spiritually negative people, huddle among the
bushes as wild animals do. When they
move about they are scratched and pricked by the briars and thistles of the
land. Yet they refuse to see the error
of their choices in their living environment.
They are in a bad way because they have chosen their
bad way to live. They are lazy and
untrustworthy.
They are fools because they lack knowledge, lack
understanding, lack wisdom for sure, and that is because they refuse truth,
responsibility and accountability in their life. They see their unrighteous way as a good and
independent way, when it is really a path of slavery and suffering within the
world and lifestyle in which they have chosen to live.
They reject truth, and embrace the lies of the
world. They hurl insults at truth, and
laugh at the finer things of life. They
prefer to tear down and destroy that which is order and free, and prefer to
hold close the things that are in themselves destruction.
In the end, they will become faceless people, without
names, without identities, without purpose, and ultimately driven out of the
normal realm of society.
And so the Bible teaches us here through Jobs
description of lazy and useless people, just what is in store for those who
reject truth. There are only two things
to embrace in life - truth and lies. Truth
leads to freedom, liberty, prosperity and so forth. Lies lead to emptiness and namelessness in
ones life.
The stubbornness of rejecting truth, means that the
person will live in the thorns of the world. They will suffer, but not think
they are suffering. They will hurt, but
will not think that they are hurting.
They will ultimately fail, but will always see themselves as succeeding.
Now is the time to post a prayer.
End Of Lesson
Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
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