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Your
Own Mouth Condemns You
Responding to the accusation from
Eliphaz that Job was arguing with useless talk, Job said, “If I speak, my pain
is not lessened, and if I hold back, what has left me? (Job 15:2-6). Could not
his friends find it in their hearts to comfort Job rather than pile on an
already shattered man? Could not they ease his pain with words of solace? Job
bemoaned, “My friends are my scoffers; my eye weeps to God (Job 16:19-22).
“Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope? Will it go down with me to
Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust? (Job 17:15-16). What kind of a
friend am I to someone who is going through severe trial? Do I pile on the
condemnation, or do I seek to ease my friend’s pain and restore their hope?
Dear Father, please help me to be a source of comfort and not the voice of
condemnation to a brother and sister in need of hope. Please bring to
remembrance Scriptures to bless them and guide my words that they may honor
You. Thank You for this beautiful passage that describes loss of hope but then
remembrance of Your great faithfulness: “My soul has been deprived of peace; I
have forgotten what happiness is. Then I thought: My future is lost, as well as
my hope from the LORD…Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
Because of the LORD’s faithful love we do not perish for His mercies never end.
They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! (Lamentations 3:17-23)
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