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Job 12:4

- Laughingstock!

- The book of Job tells us a lot about Job!

- He has done so many good things!

- And he is faithful to God!

- And he has become a laughingstock!

- Just concentrate on this word!

- Think about Job’s life and his actions!

- “A righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock”!

- What a shock for him!

- All that for that!

- What a nonsense for Job!

- He can’t situate anywhere!

- He is nowhere!

- Or better said he keeps by his faithfulness!

- It is his torch lighting him in the darkness!

- And he keeps fighting whatever happens!

- Because Job is a WRESTLER!

- Yes, a fierce fighter!

- Someone who never gives up!

- Even if he is mentally and physically exhausted!

- An incredible example that we must look at to stay on course towards the prize of loyalty!

- And the closer we get to the end, the more difficult it is!

- The more we can have the impression that everything no longer makes sense in a crazy world where everything is accelerating!

- Where those who see are more and more blind!

- Where ignorance is a pandemic that is eroding society at all levels!

 

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Job 12:5

- The carefree person doesn’t care!

- But Job cares about everything!

- And he cares about God!

- And he cares about people!

- But he also cares about himself!

- And knowing his personal situation he can only be upset!

- What a difference with a world that resembles the Titanic and its three classes linked to financial means!

- Not to mention that they all had the same ending!

- In the end, where is human intelligence?

- Why are human beings so stupid?

 

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Job 12:6

- Job is tortured!

- So he feels bad!

- And he sees what’s on in the world!

- What would he say if he could see what is happening today?

- How right he was!

- Everything is corruption!

- It's all selfishness!

- At least there is logic: the same end for all those who practice corruption and selfishness!

- Get closer and closer to the edge of the cliff!

- And then all it takes is a gust of wind and it’s a fall!

- A violent, rapid fall, with no possible escape!

- And there, this is the reality of the human species: despite its so-called intelligence, absolute failure!

- The man who believed himself more intelligent than his creator!

- Only crazy people believe in a plan B!

 

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Job 12:7-9

- Yes, Job answers back!

- And he says that God’s creation tells us about God!

- God’s creation is an open Book of God’s wisdom!

- What a difference with man!

- He is only a copier and a bad one!

- Look at what he has done to the earth!

- And the more the time passes the worse it is!

- And he seems to be proud of it!

- And more people talk about a plan B!

- But there is no plan B!

- Scientists modified fruit flies by irradiating them to prove evolution!

- Then when they let nature take its course, those who monitored got closer to the initial model!

- All that for that!

- What intelligence!

- Man only knows how to destroy!

 

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Job 12:10

- Yes, God created us!

- And we are his creation!

- And we can live thanks to all his creation!

- And he knows us!

- We can’t trick him!

- And yet he listens to his servants and to those who are really looking for him!

- And he listens to Job!

- But he answers him at the appropriate time!

- And God’s time is not ours!

- It is easy to forget it!

- And think wrong!

- You have to learn to think to make the right choices!

- This seems very difficult!

- Yet the faithful servants of Yah.weh show us the way in the Bible!

- But for many, the Bible is an outdated book!

- In fact, it is the human being who is overwhelmed!

- How is it possible to transform the earth that we received from Yah.weh to this extent to make it into trash?

- Don't dream, the land doesn't belong to us!

- We are just tenants!

- When Yah.weh asks us to account, it will be very hot and it will hurt very much!

- Who can say I didn't know, it's not my fault, I'm not responsible?

 

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Job 12:11

- We have five senses but because of modern life we are losing them more and more!

- And we have good sense: may we use it!

- Job tries to use it as much as he can!

- He keeps fighting!

-Have human beings ever had common sense?

- How is it possible to get to this point?

- It’s only getting worse!

- And the worse it gets, the more we still find some who deny the obvious!

- Stubbornness has never saved humanity!

- On the contrary, it leads him towards destruction!

- What a tragicomedy!

- How pitiful!

- For those who survive, how will it be possible to forget the past?

- The more time passes, the more the past will become nothing more than an insect that we crush!

- And yet even comparing it to an insect makes no sense because a simple insect is a miracle of divine creation!

 

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Job 12:12

- Job tells what he knows!

- May we listen to him and benefit from his words to build our personality and be active for Yah.weh!

- How we need such faithful examples, especially in these confusing and superficial times!

- What is our life if it is simply about living and dying!

- Yah.weh offers us a contract!

- Live to prepare for the future!

- Live to make the future better!

- Live to act!

- But certainly not like what man has done until today!

- A future under perpetual construction!

- Achieve perfection and avoid falling back into our mistakes!

- Perfection is what man must strive for!

- Constantly seek to improve!

- Knowing that it will always be possible to do better!

- Like the human brain: the more neuronal connections we multiply, the more the brain's possibilities are multiplied to infinity!

- The complete opposite of what is happening today!

 

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Job 12:13

- Job continues to think positively about Yah.weh!

- He knows that he is the source of wisdom and power!

- And he invites us to listen to him!

- And both parts of the Bible are essential for this!

- Why does man always seek to limit his sources in order to improve?

- Why does man try to be stupider than he is?

- The Bible is a whole and we can learn from each book!

- Why do we always have to listen to others?

- Above all, let us listen to Yah.weh and Jesus and all those who seek to bring us closer to them!

- Let us distance ourselves from all those who seek to distance us from them!

- Our life depends on it!

- We must not complain when it is too late!

 

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Job 12:14,15

- He looks at nature which is God's creation, which speaks to us about God and what he is capable of doing!

- May we do the same to find inspiration and motivation to act!

- Of course, there is no one like God!

- Every day we can see the power and wisdom of God in action!

- And every day we can see the weakness and stupidity of man!

- And nature values both and opposes them!

-And this should encourage us to be humble!

- And to constantly seek to draw closer to Yah.weh and learn from him because he is the source of life and he is the only one who can keep us away from death!

- It invites us on an endless journey in which we can be useful and build a world that we cannot even imagine!

- But for this we must delve into the Bible to obtain the necessary information to take the right path!

- Without a compass, it's impossible to find the way!

- The Hebrews didn’t make it, neither did humans!

- They all took the wrong path with no way out!

 

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Job 12:16

- He is the only one who can lead humanity!

- It's completely lost!

- And we know where it's going and it's dark!

- The void!

- Only God can bring brightness!

- The total absence of light!

- Perpetual night!

- Total fog!

- Yes, we need Yah.weh's guidance!

- In every aspect of our lives!

- Man must no longer have the possibility of destroying himself and others!

- He must no longer even have the possibility of thinking about it!

- Because before acting, man thinks!

- And to act badly, he starts by thinking badly!

- Evil must be completely eradicated as well as all those who oppose it!

 

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Job 12:17-19

- Man is prone to pride!

- But Job invites us to humility!

- We are nothing compared to him!

-And it doesn't matter if we are powerful or not!

- We are all going to die!

- And sometimes it happens faster than you think!

- Humility can help us be careful and work for our health!

- Job was old and apparently in good health when the devil acted against him!

- When everything returns to normal, he will be able to continue to enjoy a peaceful and faithful life!

- Definitely a good example to follow, reflect on and remember at all times!

- As with the fruit fly, there is only one path for man!

- And this is not the one he continues to follow since Adam and Eve turned away from Yah.weh!

- For Yah.weh is the God of promise or promises!

- The one who always keeps his promises!

- And as far as humanity is concerned, nothing has changed, man will live in peace on earth, eternally, in good health, he will have no problem with housing or food, and he will participate in all this!

- He will not be passive but active, part of what he sees happening before his eyes!

 

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Job 12:20,21

- We may think we are important but anything can happen in our life and remember we are nothing!

- Anything can happen to bring us back to reality!

- It doesn't matter when!

- Job got into trouble because of the devil but he remained faithful and his life returned to normal!

- We can imagine that he was humble enough to use what happened to him to live a better life!

- We must grow and develop our personality and try to be better in every way!

- Of course, it is not an easy journey but it can be fruitful!

- Let us not dream, all those who oppose Yah.weh will come to a bad end!

- Let's not dream, everyone who does not work for Yah.weh will come to a bad end!

- Let's not dream, there are only two paths, the one that goes towards Yah.weh and the one that leads away from Yah.weh!

- Start by thinking about the true meaning of Yah.weh and all that it implies!

- And I'm not talking about God or Lord, all-purpose words that don't mean much!

- Isn't the devil the god of this world who is heading towards his ruin?

- A loss which will be final and without return!

 

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Job 12:22

- God is definitely the source of knowledge, the creator of everything!

- We can verify this every day if we open our eyes and ears to look and listen to nature!

- We can learn a lot from the Bible if we take the time, patience and effort!

- But you have to make an effort to get closer to God!

- We must open our minds!

- And it's not easy in this modern and superficial world!

- In history, we talk about dark ages!

- Are we far from today where everything is superficial and confusing?

- Yah.weh is the God of the living and he does not forget his faithful servants who are dead!

- He can bring the dead back to life!

- And above all it will put an end to death!

- On the other hand, those who must disappear will disappear forever!

- Including demons!

- There is a time for everything and the time will come when all those who oppose his will will disappear!

- We always come back to the two paths that can be chosen!

- Either we are for Yahweh, or we are against him!

- It is not possible to remain neutral!

- You have to choose your side!

- There is nothing under the sun!

- If we don't move forward, we go backward!

 

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Job 12:23

- We have good examples in the Bible!

- But they opposed God!

- Especially Israel who was special in the eyes of God because of Abraham!

- And it was revealed so many times that it ended up completely rotten!

- But it was their choice!

- Throughout the Bible, Yah.weh used the nations to serve his interests in connection with Israel!

- He also used kings or political leaders to help his faithful servants!

- Nothing is impossible for Yah.weh!

- Anything is possible for him!

- He can destroy but each time with the aim of rebuilding!

- And his goal has always been to transform the earth into a paradise where humans can live in peace and in good conditions!

- We don't know what he has planned for the universe!

- What is certain is that he designed us with a brain of unlimited capacities!

- Until today, we can only use a very small part of it because our life is very short!

- Our brains were designed so that we live forever!

- Everything is possible, everything is possible!

- With our limitations today, we are incapable of projecting ourselves forward as it will be possible to do in the near future for those who will enter the new promised land!

 

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Job 12:24,25

- First of all, the case of Nebuchadnezzar comes to mind!

- But we can think of all the great empires that the Bible talks about and how they were crushed and their powerful men with them!

-And all history is full of these powerful and proud men!

- All that for that!

- Poor humanity!

- History is the testimony of humanity and its inability to learn anything!

- This is why we are on the verge of collapse!

- But what has to happen will happen!

- It’s a blessing in disguise!

- This must be so that Yah.weh is recognized as the universal sovereign of the universe and no one can challenge his authority!

- It will only be an accident of history!

- The journey will really begin when Yah.weh does the big cleaning to move on to the next step!

- What a relief to be able to live in a new society where everything will have to be rebuilt!

- We can remember the departure of the Hebrew people from Egypt!

- It wasn't easy, they wanted to return to Egypt!

- They preferred to be slaves to free men!

- In fact, they always remained slaves!

- They were never free!

- It will be the same in this new world, there will be no place for slaves who want to return to the old world!

 

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Job 13:1,2

- Job knows himself!

- He knows he is faithful to God!

- He's not a young boy anymore!

- He is wise!

- God says so!

- His words show it!

-And he will continue to fight!

- Job has a fighting spirit!

- And his loyalty is the source!

- May we follow his example and let him strengthen us!

- And constantly develop our knowledge of the Bible to know Yah.weh better and prepare ourselves for the new world!

- We must develop the right condition of heart to be accepted!

- We must constantly keep in mind what awaits the faithful servants of Yah.weh so as not to remain at the gates like the unfaithful Hebrews!

- Each time the majority was not worthy of entry!

- We must learn the true value of things to make the right choice!

- This only concerns us, not others!

- Others can help us, encourage us!

- Lot and his daughters were saved, Lot's wife was transformed into a pillar of salt!

- May we always have this image etched in our memory!

 

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Job 13:3

- Job's only reference is Yah.weh!

- So he wants to defend himself before Yah.weh!

- He thinks that Yah.weh is responsible for his situation!

- He doesn't understand what he did wrong!

- Actually, he didn't do anything wrong!

- On the contrary, he is attacked because of his loyalty to Yah.weh!

- The verb desire shows a strong will on his part!

- When we read and study this chapter, we find nothing about his pain and suffering!

- Job is combative!

- He wants to speak with God, he wants to reason with him!

- He wants to defend himself before Yah.weh!

- Job never gives up!

- Nothing and no one can make him change course!

- He has an indestructible strength of character!

- May we develop such strength of character that allows us to always stay the course in the storm that awaits us!

 

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Job 13:4,5

- According to Job, they lie!

- When you lie, it is not a positive act but a negative one which consists of hurting someone!

- This is not the right way to help someone who is mentally and physically injured!

- On the contrary!

- He tells them to shut up!

- This does not come from Yah.weh but from the devil!

- The last words of Yah.weh at the end of the Book of Job are clear!

- They are good for nothing!

- Or rather they force Job to find the inner strength to continue fighting!

- May we learn from Job and cultivate this inner strength!

- May we ask Yah.weh to make us ever stronger in adversity!

 

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Job 13:6

- Despite what they say, Job keeps asking them to listen to him!

- What's the point?

- They don't want to listen to him!

- But no, Job continues to ask them!

- This again shows his strong will!

- It takes a lot before he stops!

- But we remember that he will finally stop talking to them!

- Because he wants to speak with Yah.weh!

- He thinks he's the only one who can understand it!

- It's something!

- Job knows how to adapt his response depending on the situation!

- He speaks when it is necessary to speak!

- He is silent when he should be silent!

- He's indestructible!

- He's tenacious!

- He never gives up!

- There is really no one like him on earth!

 

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Job 13:7-9

- Job tells them to tell the truth, not to lie!

- God knows what they are doing!

- He warns them and he is right because God has condemned them!

- But they don't care!

- They continue to act the same way!

- They definitely speak for the devil!

- Think of the religious leaders!

- We can deceive men, we cannot deceive Yah.weh!

- There are only two paths: life or death!

- Either we work for life or we work for death!

- But in any case, we work!

- When we do nothing, we work for death!

- It’s very simple to understand!

- To be passive is to work for death!

- It has always been like this!

- The Bible is clear on this!