Adding insult to insult

Adding insult to insult

[A scorching rebuke and heartless, unfounded accusation from one of Job’s ‘friends’ being said to a man who God Himself characterized as blameless, upright, perfect, just, shuns evil, and is full of integrity .]
Job 11: 14-15
IF you put away the sin that is in your hand
AND IF you allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
 
THEN you will lift up your face without shame,
THEN you will stand firm and without fear.
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Pray the Word:
Lord, how do we PRESENT HOPE to those who are suffering or in difficult circumstances? Do we seek to offer them Jesus' compassion of ‘rejoicing with those who rejoice, and weeping with those who weep’? ----  or do we thoughtlessly throw out merciless theological theories of severe, trite cliché’s made without compassion? Help us to understand more the compassion of Your heart and how to extend that to others.