JOB 28:1-30:31
2 CORINTHIANS 2:12-17
PSALM 42:1-11
PROVERBS 22:7
I am seeing such a parallel between Job and Psalms
Psalm 42:1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
Job 29:2 “How I long for the months gone by,
for the days when God watched over me,
3 when his lamp shone on my head
and by his light I walked through darkness!
4 Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,
when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house,
I can see Job desperately desiring to be restored to God like a deer panting for streams of water. He wants to meet with God as in intimate friend. And he goes on to list off all the ways that his intimate friend blessed his house.
Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
Job 30:1 “But now they mock me,
men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to put with my sheep dogs.
Job 30:16 “And now my life ebbs away;
days of suffering grip me.
17 Night pierces my bones;
my gnawing pains never rest.
All those who respected and honored Job no longer do. They mock him and if we remember back even his wife told him to "curse God". They are surly questioning where God would be in this as they accuse him of wrong. He is fearful and in pain so tears would be his food day and night.
Psalm 42:4 These things I remember
as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
under the protection of the Mighty One
with shouts of joy and praise
among the festive throng.
Job 29:4 Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,
when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house,
5 when the Almighty was still with me
and my children were around me,
6 when my path was drenched with cream
and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.
Both are remembering when they were under the protection and blessing of God.
Psalm 42:5 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
6 My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
Job seems to be at the end of his rope and does not get to this point where he is able to praise God in his sorrow and misery. He does remember all that God had done for him but only in looking back in longing for those days again.
Psalm 42:9 I say to God my Rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy?”
10 My bones suffer mortal agony
as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
11 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
Job30:20 “I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer;
I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;
with the might of your hand you attack me.
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;
you toss me about in the storm.
23 I know you will bring me down to death,
to the place appointed for all the living.
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