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Job speaks to his "friends" in 26:4

Who has helped you utter these words?  And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

Job is questioning if their words are from God or from Satan.  If a person is not speaking the language of God, he is speaking the language of Satan because anything that is not of God is of Satan. 

Mention is made in Job 28 and 29 of wisdom and how wisdom is hidden. It makes us think of mining for treasure, mining God's Word for hidden treasures that we bring out nugget at a time to examine and ponder. 

Earlier in Job 22 Eliphaz levels many accusations against Job.  Job disputes them in chapter 29.

Job again relates his plight.  He is still being bombarded physiologically by Satan and his evil spirits with "terrors".   As Job lists all the physical, emotional, and mental pain he is enduring, it seems that the worst pain of all is the spiritual pain that the Spirit of God is not answering him.

The following verses in today’s reading took us on an amazing journey through Scripture.

Job 26:7
He spreads out the northern [skies] over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

Job 26:8-11
He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it. He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness. The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.

Job 26:14
And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?"

Our journey took us to the following Scriptures:
Deut 4:32
Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created man on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

Ps 8:3-6, 9
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
O LORD, (Yehovah - God the Father), our Lord (Adonai -God the Son)

We have only seen the work of God’s fingers. As telescope technology improves we will be able to see beyond that which we can see now. We will discover more star systems and galaxies beyond that. And on and on it goes until man can never see the end of the universe. For if man can see the end of the universe we could see the end of God and that is impossible. The point is the things in the universe declare the power and glory of God. It is so much beyond what we can imagine.

Job 38:4-5
"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
God is saying "I can do all this can you?"

Job 26:14
And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?"
Contrast whisper and thunder and hear and understand. In this finite world with limited knowledge we can hear the faintest whisper of him. How can we possibly understand the thunder of his power?

And yet….He cares about us individually!
 

Job 7:17
"What is man that you make so much of him, that you give him so much attention, what is man that you are mindful of him,

Psalm 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

We can look at the far end of the universe or look at the far end of a tiny strand of DNA and all we see is the handiwork of a grand creator and designer.

Neh 9:5b-6
"Stand up and praise the LORD your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting." "Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise. You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

Just as “the multitudes of heaven worship you” so should the multitudes of earth! It starts with the individual. It starts with each of us!