Friday, March 20, 2015

I have heard the check of my reproach

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Job 20:1–9, “Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.”

Job’s friends refused to accept that he was a good man. Zophar was upset because Job  didn’t listen to his arguments and refused to understand that Job was a bad man. After all, everyone knows that good men don’t prosper in the long term. Even if a man was raised up so that he sat above the clouds he wouldn’t be able to stay there and enjoy the benefits of his bad deeds. Anyone who saw a bad man prosper would also see his destruction.

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