Categories: bible
Date: 07 March 2008 04:21:00
Slow going, and a number of days...okay weeks...where I read nothing, but I am nearing the end of Job as I read through my Wisdom Books Navarre Bible.
I read Job 38 and 39 a few days ago: a translation can be found here. What wonderful verses. I recall reading them once, a long time ago in the distant past, and as I read them again I was simply amazed at them: from the poetry of them to the wondrous descriptions of the earth, light, stars, clouds, and more, and 10 [the number of perfection, completeness] animals to what they reveal about the God who created them all. Who could not be moved by this wonderful description of a horse in battle?
Do you give the horse his might?or amazing descriptions of rain and its purpose?
Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
Do you make him leap like the locust?
His majestic snorting is terrifying.
He paws in the valley and exults in his strength;
he goes out to meet the weapons.
He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;
he does not turn back from the sword.
Upon him rattle the quiver,
the flashing spear, and the javelin.
With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;
he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!'
He smells the battle from afar,
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.Job 39:19-15, ESV
Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rainA truly amazing description of the creative and sustaining power of our God, and the care He has for all things, living and inanimate [earth, sea, light...]. Thanks and praise be to God who has made all things, and made them so wonderfully!
and a way for the thunderbolt,
to bring rain on a land where no man is,
on the desert in which there is no man,
to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
and to make the ground sprout with grass?Job 38:25-27, ESV