30 June – 3 July 2023
Elihu also proceeded, and said, Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.
The above is the LORD speaking, revealing Himself in the flesh as Elihu (He is God), as the word of God that shall not fail nor have an end. The above statement, Job 36:1 & 2, in which the LORD begins, on the surface, seems benign, while in fact, it’s an absolute declaration of His Majesty.
To begin, the word rendered “proceeded” is yacaph, the origin of the name Joseph, meaning to add or augment. In this word, the LORD refers us to its other use in Job, defining what continues and what doesn’t.
The first of these comes in Job 17:9, as Job is (as God’s hated people) speaking to his accusers.
Job 17
1 My breath [the spirit in me] is corrupt, my days are extinct [the light in me is extinguished – from the once used word za’ak], the graves are ready for me.
2 Are there not mockers [hathol – only used here, meaning the deceived] with me? and does not my eye [‘ayin – the words that flow, teach, what I see: understand] continue in their provocation [marah – the bittern waters of rebellion]?
3 Lay down now [in the grave with], put me in a surety [join] with you; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 For you [the LORD] have hid their heart from understanding [sekel – intelligence, and success]: therefore shall you [LORD] not exalt them [their words].
5 He that speaks flattery [word intended to make the ignorant feel good about themselves] to his friends, even the eyes [‘ayin] of his children shall fail [kalah – have an end].
6 He has made me also a byword [mshowl: only used here, from mashal: a parable with deep meaning that isn’t understood] of the people; and aforetime [paniym – when before it manifested the LORD’s presence] I was [hayah – I became] as a tabret [topheth – your word as water and fire from my mouth].
7 My eye [‘ayin – the ability to comprehend what is read] also is dim by reason of sorrow [ka’ac – the provocation of putting abomination in the place of the holy], and all my members [yatsur – only here, meaning body part, meaning the scatter OND BODY] are as a shadow [in darkness; when the light, understanding, is, by the provocation, blocked].
8 Upright men shall be astonied [shamem – stunned, devastated when they realize their stupefaction] at this, and the innocent [naqiy – quieted, returned from corruption] shall stir up [‘uwr – awaken] himself against the hypocrite [chaneph – the godless].
9 The righteous also shall hold [‘achaz – seize] on his [the LORD’s] way, and he that has clean hands [no longer working corruption] shall be stronger and stronger [yacaph – shall continue, adding strength to strength, understanding to understanding].
10 But as for you all, do you return [to a right mind], and come now [to understanding]: for I cannot find one wise man among you [that hears and obeys the voice of the LORD].
11 My days are past [‘abar – are as the Passover], my purposes [zimmah – wrong ways] are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart [the foundation of my thinking].
12 They change the night into day [when I wrongly thought I understood]: the light is short because of darkness.
13 If I wait [for the end I expected], the grave [Sheol – hell] is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness [where I am in the deep sleep of ignorance and death].
14 I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm [the animated lifeless flesh among the fires of the earth’s ruin], You are my mother, and my sister.
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit [those who think there is hope in the wrong ways are by them held in hell], when our rest together is in the dust [all waiting there, insanely doing the same things, as they sleep in the ruin of the earth].
Job 20
4 Know you not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more [yacaph]; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Suffer me again for a few moments while I digress regarding the “state of nature” that now philosophically and spiritually exists in our nation, as it did previously in much of the (third) world.
We, the USA, until recently, were uniquely a nation of laws (that restrained the power of men in government as we continually strived upward toward the goal of justice for all) and not men’s whims. We now (in our nation’s seats of power) twist logic, impulsively changing laws to punish those not responsible but blamed by false accusations of demagogues who’ve, by this means, risen into power and become tyrants.
Those who’ve been with me for a time well know the above process is spoken of by Alexander Hamilton in his first letter in defense of the Constitution and urging its ratification (see Federalist #1). He therein wrote of what he and other enlightened men learned from history: that wicked men, claiming one group was victimizing another, were those who had most often overturned the liberties of republics (causing nations to commit national suicide, which is most often the way they die).
You have also heard me speak of John Adams, warning of the danger in the vast freedoms secured by the Constitution if dishonorable and ungodly men were to take power. He said they would go through it (the restraints of the Constitution) “like a whale through a net.” He is speaking of keeping (protecting and defending) the ideas that readied the nation for “self-government.” He said the Constitution is meant to be administrated by Christian people (restraining themselves), and any others there in power are the whale of which he speaks.
Christianity is (de-centralized) self-government, a principle the founders knew well from the teaching of Reverend John Wise, who wrote extensively on the subject: the principles of self-government in church and state, a Christian people governing themselves and thereby removing the need for the bloated bureaucracies which from afar now despotically rule every aspect of our lives.
So, the wicked, with evil intentions, infiltrated the church, removed good judgment, and surrendered to the calls to “keep our religion to ourselves.” They (the church) fell for the lie that told us there is such a thing as a nation without a moral standard. So, nature abhorring a vacuum, the wicked and power-hungry (barbarians) rushed into the void left by her surrender and established their kingdom of lawless men teaching against self-government.
But nature’s laws can’t be denied or avoided. Her laws were learned in the experience, in a state of nature, without any civilization or government recourse, when men by themselves understood there are certain self-restraints necessary to live in peace with others. These mostly centered on not threatening your neighbor’s life, liberty, or property; and them reciprocating and doing the same. These principles are also codified in God’s Commandments and are preceded by those telling us not to make any gods we put above God: exalting, teaching, and obeying His voice above all others.
Our Declaration of Independence is the only founding document that speaks of anything to which a people are “entitled.” Its first paragraph tells us it is to live “under the laws of nature and nature’s God.” It speaks of the necessary political separation from those denying us (putting under threat) this entitlement and our God-given rights, which the new government would be constituted to secure.
Friends, the LORD calls us again to this moment and the same separation from the lawless now sitting in power in every (centralized) institution of church and state.
“WHEN in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
Job’s next two uses of the word (yacaph) come in the first verses of Job 27 & 29, rendered “moreover,” as we’re told of Job continuing His “parable.” As we know, the word rendered “parable” is the Hebrew word mashal, meaning “apparently from 4910 in some original sense of superiority in mental action; properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse):–byword, like, parable, proverb.”
The word it (mashal) is said to be apparently from (#4910) is an almost identical word (mashal), meaning “a primitive root; to rule:–(have, make to have) dominion, governor, X indeed, reign, (bear, cause to, have) rule(-ing, -r), have power.”
These words speak of “nature” as the (natural) means of the LORD’s rule, uncovering the deep meaning in the experience, awakening our intellect, hearing, and then seeing, in the epiphany, the realization of the present reality of which we were before ignorant.
It is this aspect (the part present but missed) that is spoken of by Elihu (He is God speaking unknown) in the next uses of yacaph in Job.
Job 34
10 Therefore hearken unto me you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his [own] ways.
12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
13 Who has given him a charge over [paqad – made Him Chief Overseer of] the earth? or who has disposed [suwm – put Him in charge of] the whole world?
14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust [the ruin from which he was created].
16 If now you have understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words [understand Who is speaking].
17 Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that is most just?
18 Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You are ungodly?
19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without [man’s] hand.
21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his goings.
22 There is no darkness [ignorance], nor shadow of death [cast by man, making men so], where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
25 Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night [when ignorance of God covers the earth], so that they are destroyed.
26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
28 So that they cause the cry of the poor [who are without worldly power] to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted [oppressed by those in power].
29 When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face [presence], who then can behold [see – realize] him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared [trapped in the hell they’ve created].
31 Surely it is meet [appropriate] to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement [your correction], I will not offend any more:
32 That which I see not teach you me: if I have done iniquity, I will do [yacaph] no more.
33 Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether you refuse, or whether you choose; and not I: therefore speak what you know [and by your own words you shall be judged].
34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken [shama’ – obey] unto me [the One Who is speaking].
35 Job [God’s people rebelling against His commands] has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
36 My desire is that Job may be tried [continue in the affliction until He is corrected and obeys this voice] unto the end because of his answers for wicked men [going about to prove his ways are right, instead of submitting to the LORD’s righteousness].
37 For he adds [yacaph] rebellion [against God he hasn’t yet seen, realized] unto his sin, he claps his hands among us [drawing attention to himself instead of directing it toward God: Yahh to whom it appertains], and [ignorantly] multiplies his words against God.
Job 34
2 Hear my words, O you wise men; and give ear unto me, you that have knowledge.
3 For the ear tries [judges] words, as the mouth tastes meat.
4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
5 For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment.
6 Should I lie against my right [lie about my righteousness]? my wound is incurable without transgression.
7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
8 Which goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.
9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
The key in the above comes in verse 6 as Job speaks of his wound as “incurable,” from the nine times used Hebrew word ‘anash, meaning “a primitive root; to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy:–desperate(-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.”
The first of these uses comes in 2 Samuel 12:15, speaking spiritually of this nation as the child born to David (as those leading this), who is now dead.
2 Samuel 12
9 Wherefore have you [the leaders of God’s people] despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah [the light of Jehovah, understanding His presence and way] the Hittite [the fear of God] with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword [words from the mouths] of the children of Ammon [which divided My people into factions].
10 Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite [the light, understanding of Jehovah, which taught men the fear of God] to be your wife [Bathsheba – the daughter of the oath, the promise of God].
11 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them unto your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun [the understanding of this new day rising].
12 For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun [when this understanding is present].
13 And David said unto Nathan [the giver of this word of God], I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme [vilify Him], the child also that is born unto you shall surely die.
15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child [this nation] that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick [‘anash – the nation now incurably ill].
16 David, therefore, besought God for the child [this nation]; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night [during this time of darkness] upon the earth.
17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
18 And it came to pass on the seventh day [this day of the LORD], that the child [this nation] died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child [the nation] is dead?
19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived [biyn – understood] that the child [this nation] was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child [this nation] dead? And they said, He [this nation] is dead.
20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that you have done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat bread.
22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child [this nation] may live?
23 But now he [this nation] is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son [a new nation], and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
The name Solomon, meaning peace, is from the Hebrew word shalom (shalowm), meaning “from 7999; safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace.”
The word it (shalom) is from (#7999) is shalam (salem), meaning “to be safe (in mind, body or estate [life, liberty, and property]); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications)
The next use of ‘anash, speaking of the incurable wound of the nation, comes in Isaiah 17:11, speaking of this time of “desperate” sorrow.
Isaiah 17
4 And in that day [this day] it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim [rapha’ – when God’s people shall find rest and cure].
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, says the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker [the Creator], and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the [defiled] altars, the [corrupt] work of his hands [the creations of men], neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images [they put in My place and call by My name].
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be [now total] desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock [from where his ways of peace and security flow] of your strength [understanding], therefore shall you plant [your own creations as your] pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips [branches, those who are far from knowing me]:
11 In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap [of ruin] in the day of grief and of desperate [‘anash] sorrow [now when your national ways make your wound incurable].
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise [speak worthless words of the proud] like the noise of the seas [words of all people, as waves crashing against the shore]; and to the rushing of nations [into the battle against the LORD they don’t know], that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters [thinking their words can change the decreed end the LORD has promised]!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off [merchaq – from the LORD’s decreed appointed time], and shall be chased as the chaff [worthless men in power] of the mountains before the wind [this Almighty Spirit of the LORD], and like a rolling thing [the wheel, this word sent to give understanding and life to those who receive it as My word] before [saved by My Presence manifested in] the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening [understanding leaving] trouble; and before the morning [the coming of understanding] he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Jeremiah 17
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately [‘anash – incurably] wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to turn away from you: neither have I desired the woeful [‘anash] day [when our national condition is incurable]; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you.
17 Be not a terror unto me: you are my hope in the [this] day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
Jeremiah 30
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke [of the wicked] from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end [kalah] of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable [‘anash], and your wound is grievous.
13 There is none to plead your cause, that you mayest be bound up: you have no healing medicines [that can cure your national condition].
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy [while they claim it is peace], with the chastisement [the instruction] of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.
15 Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable [‘anash] for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things unto you.
16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
17 For I will restore health [the new nation built upon the ruin of the old] unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
Micha 1
2 Hear, all you people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the LORD God be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria [who put idols in My place and call them by My name]? and what are the high places of Judah [the corrupt crop of leaders]? are they not Jerusalem [the place from where My ways of peace and security should flow]?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons [the words of serpents and whales devouring and swallowing the wicked into hell], and mourning as the owls [when the light, understanding, comes against those hunting the souls of the ignorant in the darkness].
9 For her wound is incurable [‘anash]; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkens counsel [gives ignorant advice] by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it [have you assessed it and brought it to light]?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars [sprang to light and] sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud [the place where understanding was kept] the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it [and ignorance its protective wrapping],
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further [yacaph]: and here shall your proud waves [the pride of man] be stayed?
12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment [seen as the shining garments of Moses and Elijah].
15 And from the wicked their light [understanding] is withheld, and the high arm [the evil works of those in power, devils now misleading the world in hell] shall be broken.
16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth [the deep thing only the Father knows]?
17 Have the gates of death [hell] been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwell? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20 That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail, [these speak of God’s word frozen {reserved} in heaven, for this moment]
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 By what way is the light parted [into the rainbow], which scatter the east wind upon the earth?
25 Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder [understand and its voice – these are speaking of what is written in Revelation 10:1 thru 4, of understanding reserved for this moment];
26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man [referring us to Jeremiah 4:25, after verse 23 says, “I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.”];
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone [who is Christ – see 1 Corinthians 10:1 thru 4], and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?
33 Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth [Can you bring to light the order in heaven showing it rules over the earth]?
34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds [where understanding is held], that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 Can you send lightning, that they may go and say unto you, Here we are?
36 Who [except God] has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?
37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay [reserve until now] the bottles of heaven,
38 When [without the waters of heaven] the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
39 Shall you hunt the prey for the lion [will you seek these things out to return strength]? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait [for their LORD, the lion of Judah]?
41 Who provides for the raven [those covered in darkness] his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat [this word of God, meant for man, to return their strength].
Job 40
1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
2 Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.
3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further [yacaph].
6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.
8 Will you also disannul my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?
9 Have you an arm [working in the flesh] like God? or can you thunder [the sound of the light: understanding] with a voice like him?
10 Deck yourself now with majesty and excellency; and array yourself with glory and beauty [as He has].
11 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
14 Then will I also confess unto you that your own right hand [works] can save you.
In Job 41, the LORD then speaks of leviathan, the words from Job’s accusers, which we know from when the word leviathan is renders “mourning,” in Job 3:8, when speaking of them about to be raised up, to do the work of Satan (resisting God, as a foil against which His word, truth, is revealed from their darkness).
He (the LORD) is speaks of drawing them out into the light, corrects them into righteousness, making them His instrument in the destruction of the unrepentant foreign enemies mixed among His people.
Job 41
1 Can you draw out leviathan [into the light] with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down [from heaven]?
2 Can you put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn [showing them to be misleaders]?
3 Will he make many supplications unto you? will he speak soft words unto you?
4 Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant forever?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8 Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more [yacaph].
9 Behold, the hope of him [doing his own works] is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up [‘uwr – wakening him – see Job 17:8 above]: who then is able to stand before me [paniym – when My presence is manifested in him]?
11 Who has prevented [show the way to] me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven [full understanding given] is mine.
12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13 Who can discover the face of [paniym – My presence] his garment [the flesh in which I Am]? or who can come to him with his double bridle [as I have]?
14 Who can open the doors of his face [paniyn – his mouth revealing My entry]? his teeth [devouring the wicked] are terrible round about.
15 His scales [the word of God that flows through him] are his pride [his excellency], shut up [at his surrender] together [tsar – in his tribulation] as with a close seal [are my signature pressed into the earth].
16 One is so near to another [joined in My ONE BODY], that no air [that no other spirit] can come between [separate] them.
17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 By his neesings [moving upon these waters] a light [understanding] does shine, and his eyes [seeing as I see] are like the eyelids [seeing] of the morning [this light of the new day].
19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps [showing My way to the world], and sparks of fire leap out.
20 Out of his nostrils goes smoke [chasing the vermin from MY house], as out of a seething pot or caldron [boiling away corruption].
21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
22 In his neck remains strength [understanding], and sorrow is turned into joy [the realization of God’s presence in His people] before him [paniym – at His presence revealed].
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together [with the LORD in his ONE BODY]: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24 His heart [foundational mind] is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25 When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breaking [of the yoke of the wicked] they purify themselves.
26 The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27 He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee: sling stones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.
30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He makes a path to shine [understanding that comes] after him; one would think [the plan hidden in] the deep to be hoary [from the days of old].
33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34 He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
Ecclesiastes 3
10 I have seen the travail, which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it [yacaph], nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past [and you all have experienced and seen].
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
18 I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts [without My Spirit].
Psalms 67
1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face [presence] to shine upon us; Selah.
2 That your way may be known upon earth, your saving health among all nations.
3 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
5 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
7 God shall bless us; and all the ends [the end of the old and the beginning of the new] of the earth shall fear him.
