May 14, 2026 - Job 15-19

A second round of conversations between Job and his “friends.”   Eliphaz:  “Listen to me and I will inform you” (15:17).  Job:  “I have heard many things like these.  You are all miserable comforters” (16:1)  On the one hand arrogance, on the other brokenness (Job:  “My spirit is broken” - 17:1)  Bildad’s words are not any more helpful, nor are Zophar’s.  I think these guys are trying to help, but they misspeak and demonstrate a bit of haughtiness.  They do not provide Job what he needs.  There is One, however . . . “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.  And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in m my flesh I shall see God, who I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!” (19:25-27).

I know that my Redeemer liveth,

And on the earth again shall stand;

I know eternal life He giveth,

That grace and power are in His hand.

I know, I know that Jesus liveth,

And on the earth again shall stand;

I know, I know that life He giveth,

I know His promise never faileth,

The word He speaks, it cannot die;

Tho’ cruel death my flesh assaileth,

Yet I shall see Him by and by.   -- Jessie Brown Pounds (1893)