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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Our only hope is to return to the God of the Scriptures and the truth that the center of all meaning in life is not ourselves but God. God is the center of the universe and the essence of all wisdom and all truth. The purpose of life derives from God’s desire to see His own glory and behold His own beauty. Thus it is time for Christians to be called back to the truth that the meaning of life is to be found in “the glory of God alone.”
John Hannah

[God] may direct some to leave their homeland to go to proclaim the Gospel in a foreign land. There is a great temptation in such circumstances for people to revert to the legalism of thinking that they are being heroes for God because they are leaving their homeland to endure the rigors of living in a foreign land. Those who are directed to do hard jobs for God must remind themselves that these rigors are simply for their health. As these difficulties help them become more like Christ, they will sing a song of praise unto God, and as a result 'many will see it and fear and put their trust in the Lord' (Psm. 40:3). People who regard themselves as invalids rather than heroes will make excellent missionaries.
Daniel Fuller

Latin Vulgate Job Chapter 18:1-21.

Index: Latin Vulgate

 

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18:1 respondens autem Baldad Suites dixit

18:2 usque ad quem finem verba iactabitis intellegite prius et sic loquamur

18:3 quare reputati sumus ut iumenta et sorduimus coram vobis

18:4 qui perdis animam tuam in furore tuo numquid propter te derelinquetur terra et transferentur rupes de loco suo

18:5 nonne lux impii extinguetur nec splendebit flamma ignis eius

18:6 lux obtenebrescet in tabernaculo illius et lucerna quae super eum est extinguetur

18:7 artabuntur gressus virtutis eius et praecipitabit eum consilium suum

18:8 inmisit enim in rete pedes suos et in maculis eius ambulat

18:9 tenebitur planta illius laqueo et exardescet contra eum sitis

18:10 abscondita est in terra pedica eius et decipula illius super semitam

18:11 undique terrebunt eum formidines et involvent pedes eius

18:12 adtenuetur fame robur eius et inedia invadat costas illius

18:13 devoret pulchritudinem cutis eius consumat brachia illius primogenita mors

18:14 avellatur de tabernaculo suo fiducia eius et calcet super eum quasi rex interitus

18:15 habitent in tabernaculo illius socii eius qui non est aspergatur in tabernaculo eius sulphur

18:16 deorsum radices eius siccentur sursum autem adteratur messis eius

18:17 memoria illius pereat de terra et non celebretur nomen eius in plateis

18:18 expellet eum de luce in tenebras et de orbe transferet eum

18:19 non erit semen eius neque progenies in populo suo nec ullae reliquiae in regionibus eius

18:20 in die eius stupebunt novissimi et primos invadet horror

18:21 haec sunt ergo tabernacula iniqui et iste locus eius qui ignorat Deum