By; Rev. Lynwood F. Mundy
Job 1:18-22
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, (Job 1:4, 13) “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
19 and suddenly a great wind came from (LXX omits across) across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
20 Then Job arose, (Gen. 37:29, 34; Josh. 7:6; Ezra 9:3) tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he [1 Pet. 5:6] fell to the ground and worshiped.
21 And he said:
( [Ps. 49:17; Eccl. 5:15]; 1 Tim. 6:7) “Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked shall I return there.
The Lord (Eccl. 5:19; [James 1:17]) gave, and the Lord has (Gen. 31:16; [1 Sam. 2:6]) taken away;
(Eph. 5:20; [1 Thess. 5:18]) Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
22 (Job 2:10) In all this, Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982. Print.
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