"Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom."
Job 34:35 (NKJV)
Have you ever met someone who likes to talk a lot? Maybe you are or have been that kind of person. At times most of us have been guilty of thinking that if we use enough words somehow that makes us either look smart or it helps us make a point and state our case. The truth is that quantity does not always equal quality, this is true with words as well as with many other things. For example, if you have 100 gold bars that would be great but if you had 100 rocks it would not mean much. Or you could have just one bar of gold and it would still be more valuable than 100 rocks.
If you read the book of Job you will see that there was a lot of talking going on. In the first two chapters of Job we see Job's problems and then his friends show up. Then, from Job chapter 3 all the way through Job chapter 31, Job and his three friends talk, and talk, and talk. But, they don't come up with any answers or solve any problems, they just talk, and talk, and talk! There are a lot of different ideas that people have about Job and what happened to him and my goal is not to give any explanation about the book of Job but rather to point out that all of the talking they did produced nothing.
Many people talk a lot but they still don't really have anything to say, this was the case of Job and his friends as well as many people today. It is nice to have something to say but is that something we say worth anything? Is what we say helpful, constructive, and encouraging or are we like the situation we see in Job where there were a lot of words but no wisdom. It is easy to find people who talk a lot but it is not so easy to find someone who really has something to say. We need to speak the truth of God's Word to ourselves and others to be sure that we have something valuable to say.
Job 34:35 (NKJV)
Have you ever met someone who likes to talk a lot? Maybe you are or have been that kind of person. At times most of us have been guilty of thinking that if we use enough words somehow that makes us either look smart or it helps us make a point and state our case. The truth is that quantity does not always equal quality, this is true with words as well as with many other things. For example, if you have 100 gold bars that would be great but if you had 100 rocks it would not mean much. Or you could have just one bar of gold and it would still be more valuable than 100 rocks.
If you read the book of Job you will see that there was a lot of talking going on. In the first two chapters of Job we see Job's problems and then his friends show up. Then, from Job chapter 3 all the way through Job chapter 31, Job and his three friends talk, and talk, and talk. But, they don't come up with any answers or solve any problems, they just talk, and talk, and talk! There are a lot of different ideas that people have about Job and what happened to him and my goal is not to give any explanation about the book of Job but rather to point out that all of the talking they did produced nothing.
Many people talk a lot but they still don't really have anything to say, this was the case of Job and his friends as well as many people today. It is nice to have something to say but is that something we say worth anything? Is what we say helpful, constructive, and encouraging or are we like the situation we see in Job where there were a lot of words but no wisdom. It is easy to find people who talk a lot but it is not so easy to find someone who really has something to say. We need to speak the truth of God's Word to ourselves and others to be sure that we have something valuable to say.
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