Catching up today, as Wednesday's reading (January 14) was: Job 32:1-34:37...
Job 32:18-19 reminds me of Jesus' words in Matthew 9:17.
"For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me; inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst." (Job)
"Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out, and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved." (Matthew)
Job 36:26 inspires me most of all in today's reading: "How great is God--beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out."
Yesterday and today, we read the words of a younger man, Elihu. He claims that wisdom is not only the product of age, but also of Spirit. He also claims to be filled and inspired by Spirit. But I don't see that he advances any arguments not already stated by his elders--Bildad, Zophar, and Eliphaz.
Reader, do you?
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