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AUGUST 8
22 Those who hate you will be clothed
with shame,
And the dwelling place of the wicked
8:3 Almighty pervert justice. Bildad took will come to nothing.”
Job’s claims for innocence and applied them Psalm 92:8–15
to his simplistic notion of retribution. He con-
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cluded that Job was accusing God of injustice But You, LORD, are on high forevermore.
when God must be meting out justice to Job. 9 For behold, Your enemies, O LORD,
Job tried to avoid outright accusations of this For behold, Your enemies shall perish;
sort, but the evidence led Bildad to this con- All the workers of iniquity shall be
clusion because he had no knowledge of the scattered.
heavenly facts. 10 But my horn You have exalted like a
wild ox;
I have been anointed with fresh oil.
Surely now He would awake for you,
11 My eye also has seen my desire on my
And prosper your rightful dwelling
place. enemies;
7 Though your beginning was small, My ears hear my desire on the wicked
Yet your latter end would increase Who rise up against me.
abundantly.
8 “For inquire, please, of the former age,
And consider the things discovered by
their fathers; 92:10 my horn…anointed with fresh oil.
9 For we were born yesterday, and know This figure is based on a practice of making an
nothing, animal’s horns gleam by rubbing oil on them.
Because our days on earth are a shadow. Thus God, in effect, had invigorated the
10 Will they not teach you and tell you, psalmist (Pss. 23:5; 133:2).
And utter words from their heart?
11 “Can the papyrus grow up without a 12 The righteous shall flourish like a palm
marsh? tree,
Can the reeds flourish without water? He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
12 While it is yet green and not cut down, 13 Those who are planted in the house of
It withers before any other plant. the LORD
13 So are the paths of all who forget God; Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
And the hope of the hypocrite shall 14 They shall still bear fruit in old age;
perish, They shall be fresh and flourishing,
14 Whose confidence shall be cut off, 15 To declare that the LORD is upright;
And whose trust is a spider’s web. He is my rock, and there is no
15 He leans on his house, but it does not unrighteousness in Him.
stand.
He holds it fast, but it does not endure. Proverbs 22:17–21
16 He grows green in the sun,
17 Incline your ear and hear the words of
And his branches spread out in his
garden. the wise,
17 His roots wrap around the rock heap, And apply your heart to my
And look for a place in the stones. knowledge;
18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep
18 If he is destroyed from his place,
them within you;
Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
not seen you.’ 19 So that your trust may be in the LORD;
19 “Behold, this is the joy of His way, I have instructed you today, even you.
And out of the earth others will grow. 20 Have I not written to you excellent
20 Behold, God will not cast away the things
blameless, Of counsels and knowledge,
Nor will He uphold the evildoers. 21 That I may make you know the
21 He will yet fill your mouth with certainty of the words of truth,
laughing, That you may answer words of truth
And your lips with rejoicing. To those who send to you?

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