16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even if I beg him with my own mouth.
Job 19:16 (CSB)
10 It would still bring me comfort, and I would leap for joy in unrelenting pain that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. 11 What strength do I have, that I should continue to hope? What is my future, that I should be patient? 12 Is my strength that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze? 13 Since I cannot help myself, the hope for success has been banished from me. 14 A despairing man should receive loyalty from his friends,, even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brothers are as treacherous as a wadi, as seasonal streams that overflow
Job 6:10-15 (CSB)
When life doesn’t make sense you will struggle with:
- Your relationship with your family and friends.
14 My relatives stop coming by, and my close friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:14 (CSB)
12 When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head. 13 Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.
Job 2:12-13 (CSB)
2 Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2 (CSB)
5 For each person will have to carry his own load.
Galatians 6:5 (CSB)
7 After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. 8 Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” 9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
Job 42:7-9 (CSB)
When life doesn’t make sense you will struggle with:
- Your relationship with God.
15 Even if he kills me, I will hope in him. I will still defend my ways before him.
Job 13:15 (CSB)
25 But I know that my Redeemer lives,, and at the end he will stand on the dust.
Job 19:25 (CSB)
24 Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
Job 13:24 (CSB)
3 If only I knew how to find him, so that I could go to his throne. 4 I would plead my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 23:3-4 (CSB)
8 If I go east, he is not there, and if I go west, I cannot perceive him. 9 When he is at work to the north, I cannot see him; when he turns south, I cannot find him. 10 Yet he knows the way I have taken; when he has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.
Job 23:8-10 (CSB)
20 I cry out to you for help, but you do not answer me; when I stand up, you merely look at me.
Job 30:20 (CSB)
8 The Lord is the one who will go before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or abandon you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
Deuteronomy 31:8 (CSB)
When life doesn’t make sense you will struggle with:
- Your relationship with yourself.
1 After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born. 2 He said: 3 May the day I was born perish, and the night that said, “A boy is conceived.” 4 If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above not care about it, or light shine on it.
Job 3:1-4 (CSB)
11 Why was I not stillborn; why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?
Job 3:11 (CSB)
26 I cannot relax or be calm; I have no rest, for turmoil has come.
Job 3:26 (CSB)
7 Remember that my life is but a breath. My eye will never again see anything good.
Job 7:7 (CSB)
1 My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. A graveyard awaits me.
Job 17:1 (CSB)
11 My days have slipped by; my plans have been ruined, even the things dear to my heart.
Job 17:11 (CSB)
11 See, we count as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and have seen the outcome that the Lord brought about—the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
James 5:11 (CSB)
2 I know that you can do anything and no plan of yours can be thwarted.
Job 42:2 (CSB)