Job 12 - Praying God's Word

Please read Job 12.  Job is speaking.

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Meditate on verses 1-2.

 

Then Job responded, "Truly then you are the

people, and with you, wisdom will die!”

 

Job responds to being called an idiot with quick wit and cutting sarcasm, referring to his friends being the ones miraculously birthed by a donkey (Job 11:12; 12:2).  It is encouraging to see Job’s smart comeback despite how horrible he feels. 

 

After rebuking his friends, Job describes the amazing power of God.  Pray these truths from Job 12:13-25 and 4 in declaration of who God is as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, with You are wisdom and might;

to You belong counsel and understanding.

Behold, You tear down, and it cannot be rebuilt;

You imprison a man, and there can be no release.

 Behold, You restrain the waters, and they dry up,

and You send them out, and they inundate the earth.

With You are strength and sound wisdom,

the misled and the misleader belong to You.  

You make counselors walk barefoot and

make fools of judges. You loosen the bond of

kings and bind their loins with a girdle.

You make priests walk barefoot and

overthrow the secure ones. You deprive the

trusted ones of speech and take away the

discernment of the elders. You pour contempt

on nobles and loosen the belt of the strong.

You reveal mysteries from the darkness and

 bring the deep darkness into light.

You make the nations great, then destroy them;

You enlarge the nations, then lead them away.  

You deprive of intelligence the chiefs of the earth's

people and make them wander in a pathless waste. 

They grope in darkness with no light, and You

make them stagger like a drunken man.

LORD, I call on You. 

Please answer me in Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 4 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell