Priest Daniel Sysoev - Job 16

 1Then Job answered:

2“I have heard many things like these;

miserable comforters are you all.

3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches?

What provokes you to continue testifying?

4I could also speak like you

if you were in my place;

I could heap up words against you

and shake my head at you.

5But I would encourage you with my mouth,

and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved,

and if I hold back, how will it go away?

Here, people have uttered a lot of common phrases that do not comfort at all. Indeed, a pitiful comforter who is unable to show suffering, does not explain why it happened, they just say that you need to repent. How many try to isolate themselves from suffering, so as not to suffer. People are terribly afraid of compassion, they can comfort, but often the heart does not reach, why? Because people are pitiful comforters, they are afraid that someone else's compassion will touch the heart, and if it touches your heart, then it is empty. Compassion is complicity in the suffering of a person, otherwise it will not work out. If a person wants to help a suffering person, he must be compassionate, and only in this way will he be able to raise him. The Lord participates in our sufferings, reaches the very bottom and thus pulls us out. Have you ever wondered why people are comforted after Communion? The Lord drinks the blood that flowed out on the cross, despite his suffering. He compassionate us to the very bottom, to the very death. And that's why the Sacrament is comforting, the time of the Lord's compassion. Therefore, it becomes easier for a person. Job says:

4I could also speak like you

if you were in my place;

I could heap up words against you

and shake my head at you.

One episode from the Bible does not remind you: when one person suffered, while others walked and nodded their heads, remember? About Christ! All these events overlap.

6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved,

and if I hold back, how will it go away?

7Surely He has now exhausted me;

You have devastated all my family.

His whole family collapsed, his wife called to blaspheme God, and the children all perished.

8You have bound me, and it has become a witness;

my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

These wrinkles, which it covers, are my rot, it is against me in the eyes of others. Friends see the disease, against me and accusations.

9His anger has torn me and opposed me;

He gnashes His teeth at me.

My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

Is it clear what it means to pierces? To hit harder. Finds a place to strike.

10They open their mouths against me

and strike my cheeks with contempt;

they join together against me.

11God has delivered me to unjust men;

He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

12I was at ease, but He shattered me;

He seized me by the neck and crushed me.

He has set me up as His target;

13His archers surround me.

He pierces my kidneys without mercy

and spills my gall on the ground.

14He breaks me with wound upon wound;

He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;

I have buried my horn in the dust.

16My face is red with weeping,

and deep shadows ring my eyes;

17yet my hands are free of violence

and my prayer is pure.

18O earth, do not cover my blood;

may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

19Even now my witness is in heaven,

and my advocate is on high.

20My friends are my scoffers

as my eyes pour out tears to God.

21Oh, that a man might plead with God

as he pleads with his neighbor!

22For when only a few years are past

I will go the way of no return.

Job says that if God does not hear me, then let me not cover my blood. You know that since the murder of Cain and Abel, the earth does not hide blood, and all the innocent blood that was shed on the earth, the blood of the murdered people, she cries out to God "Take revenge!" Why are families crumbling now? Why does horror attack people? This often happens with murders. You know, murdered children, people, they shout about revenge. Famous case: a gynecologist, saw a huge sea of ​​corpses and blood, because he killed children. Likewise, many mothers cannot come to their senses, after many years, after committing a murder, the blood continues to scream. The blood of the slain cries out to God to avenge it. Job says not to cover the earth with my blood, he wants retribution for the innocence of suffering. Job knows that there is no one besides Him who can protect.

The one who can vouch for my innocence is only God. Job wants to sue God again, his desire:

21Oh, that a man might plead with God

as he pleads with his neighbor!

Why is it needed? Because he knows that time is running out, he will soon die.

 



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