Job 40
God gave a thought provoking response to job. God was telling job how wrong he was to think He (God )was unjust in His judgement and to think he can put blames on Him .
“Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?"...
God's greatness is incomparable. He is the creator of heaven and earth and all that are in it.
God also spoke of the huge beast Behemoth how He had created it to be a great animal .
Lessons
In life we could find ourselves a similar situation as Job. We could find ourselves questioning God. Asking if He has been fair at all. But we should always remember that His plans are not to bring us to destruction but to build us and shape us for His glory. He will definitely save us.
Job 41
In this chapter God continues in his response to Job. He spoke about the Leviathan . According to Wikipedia, the Leviathan is a huge sea serpent. God spoke of the immense strength and the greatness of this creature.
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?..."
The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin. Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood. Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it. A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance. .."
Job 42
Job gave his reply to God . “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted..." Job said he was hearing the voice of God before but now he has seen God . He then repented covering himself with ashes and dusts.
Meanwhile "After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has . They were asked to take seven bulls and seven rams and bring them to Job so he could pray for them.
So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
He had seven sons and three daughters. The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
Lessons
God's thoughts for are not of evil but good. No matter what we might be facing today we will come out with celebration at last.
