Thy Strong Word - Job 10: Job Continues: A Plea to God

Hosted by Rev. Michael Meyer, Manager of Disaster Response with the LCMS Office of National Mission.

With guest Rev. Doug Minton from Redeemer Lutheran Church in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.

Job 10

Job Continues: A Plea to God

10 “I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
    I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
²I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
    let me know why you contend against me.
³Does it seem good to you to oppress,
    to despise the work of your hands
    and favor the designs of the wicked?
⁴Have you eyes of flesh?
    Do you see as man sees?
⁵Are your days as the days of man,
    or your years as a man’s years,
⁶that you seek out my iniquity
    and search for my sin,
⁷although you know that I am not guilty,
    and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
⁸Your hands fashioned and made me,
    and now you have destroyed me altogether.
⁹Remember that you have made me like clay;
    and will you return me to the dust?
¹⁰Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese?
¹¹You clothed me with skin and flesh,
    and knit me together with bones and sinews.
¹²You have granted me life and steadfast love,
    and your care has preserved my spirit.
¹³Yet these things you hid in your heart;
    I know that this was your purpose.
¹⁴If I sin, you watch me
    and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
¹⁵If I am guilty, woe to me!
    If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
    and look on my affliction.
¹⁶And were my head lifted up,^[a] you would hunt me like a lion
    and again work wonders against me.
¹⁷You renew your witnesses against me
    and increase your vexation toward me;
    you bring fresh troops against me.

¹⁸“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
¹⁹and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.
²⁰Are not my days few?
    Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
²¹before I go—and I shall not return—
    to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
²²the land of gloom like thick darkness,
    like deep shadow without any order,
    where light is as thick darkness.”

Footnotes:

Job 10:16 Hebrew lacks my head

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Rev. William Weedon

We have the distinct privilege of borrowing LCMS Director of Worship and International Center Chaplain Rev. William Chancellor Weedon for an hour a day to add Host of Thy Strong Word to his list of titles. Native to the central Maryland area just outside of Washington D.C., he enthusiastically enjoys his coffee, playing piano, and singing heartily, as well as spending time in the pool with his wife Cindi, three children and their spouses, and seven grandchildren. He’s one of those people that listens to Christmas music year-round, but we still let him in our studios. You may find him reading a good murder mystery or some writing by Johann Gerhard, Joseph Ratzinger, or Alexander Schmemann while eating a chocolate torte made by his wife Cindi. When he’s read all the books he can manage, he escapes outside to hike, bike, or even run in his Vivobarefoot shoes that Andy Bates, his favorite famous person, told him to buy.