Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 9, 2004 Job: 21 - 23

Job 21
v. 1 - 34
Job speaks again: Listen carefully to what I say, then you may go ahead and mock me. My complaint is not against man. Why do wicked man prosper and the godly struggle. Wicked men build empires that their sons take over. Everything goes right for them. And they tell God that they have no time for Him. Can anyone teach God? How can you comfort me with your words of the wicked when you can see it with your own eyes.

Job 22
v. 1- 30
Elipahaz part 3: You want a list of what you have done wrong, here is the list. (see Bible (v. 1- 11). Yet you say what does God know. Aquaint yourself with Him, repent. Return to God, He will build you up.

Job 23
v. 1 - 17
Job again: I am bitter in complaint. I wish I could present my case before God. Then I would know how he answers me. No matter which way I go he is not there. God has made me weak.


Read tomorrow: Job: 24 - 28

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 7, 2004 Job 17 - 20

Job 17
v. 1 - 16
More from Job: God has made me a curse word that men speak, some one that they spit upon. God has broken me. But you men come back if you wish, Maybe one wise man will be among you. I see no hope, only a path to my death.

Job 18
v. 1- 21
Bildad takes his second chance: Why are we the stupid ones, will the earth change how it works just for you? The wicked is trapped like a man in a snare, and destruction comes to him.

Job 19
v. 1 - 29
Job's reply to Bildad: How long you going to keep this up? You have wronged me. And God has wronged me. If I cry I am wronged, I am not heard. He has let his wrath out against me. The people that I paid as servants, they do not even know who I am any more. Even little children hate me. Pity me my friends, God has struck me. But I know my redeemer lives! I shall see God.

Job 20
v. 1 - 29
Zophar part two: The joy of a hypocrite is short Job. Evil is sweet in youth, but it hides till later. It becomes like food in the stomach that goes sour. The wicked man flees, and heaven will go after him.

Read tomorrow: Job: 21 - 23

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 7, 2004 Job 14 - 16

Job 14
v. 1 - 22
Job continues: Man is a fleeting thing, and you are eternal, how can you judge me. Trees and plants will regrow when cut down, but man dies and is in the ground, so why do You cut me down? As a mountain is worn down to dirt, so you are wearing me down God. Oh for relief before I die.

Job 15
v. 1- 35
Eliphaz Round 2: Would a wise man speak emptiness. You are crafty with your tongue you are Job. Do you speak directly to God? What wisdom do you have we do not? Man is born of a woman, he is sinful (my notes to my paraphrase: well we got one thing right here). Wicked men fail, plain and simple.

Job 16
v. 1 - 22
Job Again: Listening to you is like listening to hot air. Who are you answering, not my words. We could trade place and maybe I could speak like you do. Instead, I would give strength to you and not tare you down. You are helping God in his attack against me. God has shaken me like a rag doll and set me down as a target for archers who have pierced my heart. Oh God, if I could plea my case before you.

Read tomorrow: Job: 17 - 20

Judge Resigns Over Alleged Abuse Remarks
The problem is that he is right. No, I do not condone men abusing woman, but, too often the woman know how to hit the men's hot button till they blow, then they claim that he abused me and should never have done it. What if the man had hit her hot buttons till she blew? The shoe would be on the other foot then.

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 6, 2004 Job 10 - 13

Job 10
v. 1 - 22
Job continues: This is what I would say to God. Do you enjoy inflicting pain. Do you see and feel things like a man does? Remember what you are doing to me when you are done. Why have you brought me to life, leave me alone so I can get peace before I fade in death to darkness.

Job 11
v. 1- 20
Zophar speaks to Job: God, can you tell this guy what he has done wrong? Job, can you understand God? Are you higher than heaven and lower than hell? If you would ask forgiveness he would forgive you and you could go on. Other wise you are a sinner.

Job 12
v. 1 - 25
Job replies - again!: Look guys, I am not stupid, I know as much as you do and I am innocent.You mock me with your accusations. God, who holds all life in His hand is the cause of this.

Job 13
v. 1 - 28
Job continues some more: Why do you speak deceit in defence of God. God, can you take this awfulness off of me then call me so we can talk? Please scare me no more.

Read tomorrow: Job: 14 - 16

Yahoo! News - 'Dirty Bomb' Threat Was Big New Year's Eve Worry
Interesting story. But they ask why we are as a people are not concerned. There were too many cry wolfs in the past. I cannot live like they are going to kill me. God will protect me till my time, and then I will go home.

Britney Spears Annuls Brief Las Vegas Marriage | Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage:

"'Plaintiff Spears lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to marriage because Plaintiff and Defendant did not know each other's likes and dislikes, each other's desires to have or not have children and each other's desires as to state of residency,' the court papers said. "

So let me translate this to English so the rest of us can understand. Though she has known this guy since childhood, she has the IQ of a grapefruit because she does not know any thing about him at all.
I think that sums it up real well.
Second question is why do I care?

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 5, 2004 Job 6 - 9

Job 6
v. 1 - 30
Job replies to Eliphaz: He proclaims that he does not know why God has done this to him. And he wishes that God would crush him, even thinks God would take delight in it. And you who have to comfort me, comfort me do not blame me. Teach me where I am wrong if you will, but do not blame me falsely.

Job 7
v. 1- 21
Job continues: Man on earth is like the servant man who seeks out shade when he should be working or a hired man looking for his wages. I have had my time, it is done, I seek the shade, the death would be like a payment. My days go by so fast and seem to be hopeless. He then asks God how long it will be before God does not pay attention to him, till he can live in peace.

Job 8
v. 1 - 22
Bildad makes his reply to Job: Look Job, God puishes the sinfull and blesses the righteous. Just like a plant will wither when cut off, so will man when he cuts himself off from God. So is the way of God Job.

Job 9
v. 1 - 35
Job replies back again: Look, I know I am innocent of anything that God can try to blame me for. God is so strong, how can I stand up to Him? I despise this life of mine. God allows the wicked to have the earth. God is not a man. I cannot have my day in court with him, there is no mediator with him. Take the rod of pain away from me God! I wish to speak without fear of more pain.

Read tomorrow: Job: 10 - 13

Lycos News | LSU Wins Sugar Bowl and National Championship
The problem with the system cannot be fixed with tinkering with the format. If the NCAA is serious about having a national championship they need to go to a playoff series like the Basketball does. Dang, we nearly have enough Bowl games to pull it off, don't we?

Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 4, 2004 Job 1 - 5

Job 1
v. 1 - 5
We are introduced to Job, a man of wealth and status. But though he seems to love God, he seems to have an obsession that one of his children may have sinned in their times of worship to God.

v. 6 - 12
Over to heaven (it seems) and The Adversary (Satan) is their, and God asks him (as if He had to) where have you been. God points out that Job is upright and Satan says he can bring him down. God allows it. One set of notes that I read states that he was tempted not because he was unrighteous, but because of it and to give him a deeper in sight to God. I will have to ponder on that. Still notice, that God does not give the trials, it is the Accuser.

v. 13 - 22
All that Job owns, and his family (except for his wife we will find) are taken from him by various means, He has lost everything. Job says, I had nothing, God gave it to me, God can take it away, Bless God. Notice those are Job's words. He does not know who really took it all away.

Job 2
v. 1- 8
Back in heaven, comparing notes again, and Satan says, you would not let me make him sick, just take stuff away. God says OK, have at it but spare his life. So Satan makes Job ill with boils all over his body.

v. 9 - 10
Job's wife shows her spirtuality (or lack of it). "Curse God and die" she says. Nope, says Job. I will not. I accepted prosperity from Him,I accept adversity as well.

v. 11-13
His friends come. And join him and at first do not recognize him. They sit with him in silence waiting for him to speak, an ancient Jewish custom I have read. They were covenant friends, and they were there for him, not just people that he knew.

Job 3
v. 1 - 26
Job's First Speech - Job does not curse God. But he does curse a lot of things. The day he was born for starters. Next the fact he was born live instead of a still birth. Then the question. Why will those who seek death never get it, and those who seek life seem to die. And clearly, though not the reason that he has the trials, what he fears has come on him. Satan will use what you fear to torment you.

Job 4
v. 1 - 22
The first friend of Job replies. He says that Job has done well in council of others, so listen to this. You are being punished because you sinned (again, he does not have the inside information we do). He even tries to say to Job, you think you are more righteous than God?

Job 5
v. 1 - 27
He continues his speech. God sends the rains and stops the crafty people. He saves the needy. You should be happy that God is correcting you, do not despise it. Accept this so that you can go on with your life.

Read tomorrow: Job: 6 - 9