“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Sunday Scripture: Job Replies: Where Then Is My Hope?

by | Jun 14, 2020 | Sunday Scripture | 0 comments

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?
Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property — the eyes of his children will fail.

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’
If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,
if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”


— Job 17:1-16, English Standard Version



It’s also worth looking at the classic William Blake painting, Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils:

Not at all coincidentally, the Tate Britain is my favourite art gallery in the world – and I do mean that. A big part of the reason for that is the fact that they havea full gallery of William Blake’s greatest works occupying pride of place there.

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