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约伯记［第16章］
Book of Job 16

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约伯记［第16章］|Book of Job 16

【紧紧抓住祢】

主讲:郑伟健同工

05/01/2024


引言：

一、愁烦加增，但不气馁（V1-5）

约伯第二次回答以利法的回复，他称朋友们是愁烦的安慰者。他在这里也特别提醒朋友们的同理心，甚至也让他们思想若他们都互换角色，面对同样的对待，他们会有什么感觉。

这里给我们有两个提醒：

第一，我们要常常提醒自己，是否也像以利法一样，以为自己是神用温和的话安慰你，但别人的感受却是你们安慰人，反叫人愁烦。

第二，即便约伯收到的是一次又一次从朋友们安慰中的愁烦。他即使是生气，也仍然不放弃努力向朋友们表达他的感受。

二、面对苦难，但不放弃（V6-14）

约伯的情绪非常激动。约伯反驳了以利法的语言攻击后，突然想起神对自己的攻击，所以语无伦次地描述神怎样攻击自己，用各种比喻让人可以明白和体会自己如何被神攻击，而不是以以利法指控来形容。

1. 身体疾病（V6-8）

约伯说神抓住他，使他困倦，使亲友远离他，身体也受攻击。

2. 被人欺压（V9-10）

约伯从一开始到现在仍然坚持相信神有主权，所以他认为是因为神发怒撕裂他，以致他的朋友攻击他，他认为若不是神向他切齿，他的朋友不会如此；他相信从一开始他失去一切，都是神的攻击，并且他朋友的攻击也是从神而来。

3. 面对攻击（V11-14）

约伯认为神把他交给不敬虔的人，把他扔到恶人的手中，然后折断他。他向朋友说其实是神攻击他，他不明白是为何，他只知道一切是出于神。他坚信赏赐是来自神，现在收取也是来自于神。

三、走投无路，但仍相信

1. 向神哭诉 （V15-17）

约伯并没有一直否定自己是罪人，而是相信在这一次的受苦中并不是因为犯罪。只是这样的无辜受苦，使他越发困惑。但是他坚信神是公义的，既然他的手中却无强暴；他的祈祷也是清洁，那么鉴察人心的神就必定会为他作证。所以他的选择是仍然不断向神求助，求神显明一切。

2. 向神哀号

约伯面对恶者和朋友们的攻击，他甚是痛苦，他也深知道是不容易走过的，所以他向神眼泪汪汪。但同时他也越来越清楚，对于一切生命的问题，人的揣测都是枉然的，只有与神当面辩白的时候，才有可能得到满意的答案。

总结：

其实约伯只要说出任何一句背弃神的话，那么这场试炼就结束了。因为那就足以证明撒但的指控是真的，那就是约伯的敬虔只是为了得好处。但约伯坚持到了这里，他虽然愤怒、彷徨，却仍然相信神是至高的、是令人敬畏的。

面对困难，我们是可以向神表达我们的感觉，但是不要放弃神。求神帮助我们，无论遇到任何的挑战、逼迫、危机，我们都可以紧抓住神，因为一切主权出于神！


Job Chapter 16: "Hold on tightly to You"
GK611 Morning Devotion
5/1/2024
The Morning Devotion Speaker: Bro Asher

I. Worry increases, but not discouraged (V1-5)

Job replied to Eliphaz’s response the second time that he called his friends Miserable comforters. He also specifically reminded his friends of empathy and even asked them to think about how they would feel if they all switched roles and faced the same treatment.

Here are two reminders for us: First, we must always remind ourselves whether, like Eliphaz, we thought we knew God’s comfort, but this comfort made Job even more worried.

Second, even though Job was worried repeatedly when received comfort from friends. Even when he was angry, he never gave up trying to express his feelings to his friends.

II. Face hardships but never give up (V6-14)

Job was very emotional. Job refuted Eliphaz’s verbal attack, and suddenly remembered God’s attack on him, so he described incoherently how God attacked him, using various metaphors to let people understand how he was attacked by God, instead of accusing God as Eliphaz accused him.

1. Physical illness (V6-8)

Job said that God shriveled him up, made him worn out, desolated all his company, and attacked his body too.

2. Being oppressed (V9-10)

Job still insists on believing in the sovereignty of God from the beginning to the present, so he thinks it is because God is angry and tears him apart to the extent that his friends attack him. He thinks that if God had not gnashed his teeth at him, his friends would not have behaved like this; he believes everything he lost from the beginning was an attack from God, and the attacks from his friends also came from God.

3. Facing attack (V11-14)

Job believed that God handed him over to ungodly men, threw him into the hands of the wicked, and then shattered him. He told his friends that it was actually God who was attacking him. He didn’t understand why. He only knew that everything was from God. He firmly believed that the rewards came from God, and whatever he received now also came from God.

III. Desperate, but still believing

1. Cry to God (V15-17)

Job did not deny that he was a sinner although he believed that his suffering this time was not due to sin. It was just that such innocent suffering made him so confused. But he firmly believed that God was righteous. There was no violence in his hands and his prayer was pure, God, who searches people's hearts, would surely testify for him. So, his choice was to continue asking God for help and asking God to reveal everything.

2. Wail to God

When Job faced the attacks from the evil one and his friends, he cried bitterly, however, it was not easy to go through, so he cried to God. But at the same time, he also became more and more aware that human speculations on all life issues are in vain. Only when clearing up face-to-face with God, then can we get a satisfactory answer.

Conclusion：

If Job had spoken any word that is renouncing God , this trial would have been over. For that would prove Satan's accusation that Job's righteousness was only for gain. But Job persisted until this point. Although he was angry and hesitant, he still believed that God was supreme and awesome.

When faced with difficulties, we can express our feelings to God, but we should not give up on God. Ask God to help us. No matter what challenges, persecutions, or crises we encounter, we can hold on to God because all sovereignty comes from God!