Job 16: What kind of a friend am I?
Posted by nathan on 27 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: my life., thoughts on god., thoughts on life.
This morning i was reading Job 16. Something jumped out at me in these verses, as Job is going back and forth with his friends:
Then Job answered and said:
“I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.
hall windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and shake my head at you.
I could strengthen you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
Job 16:1-5, ESV
What kind of a friend am I?
‘I could strengthen you’
or
‘I could…shake my head at you’
made me take a step back and look at my life.
Optimistic or pessimistic, the choice is mine.
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