Today's Favorite Verse: Job 4:7

Today's Favorite Verse: Job 4:7

"Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?"

Eliphaz the Temanite speaks to Job and implies that what has come upon him is from wickedness. It is true that we can bring sorrow to ourselves for our sins, but we cannot assume that is the case for everyone that has trials and struggles. All of us must pass through the storms of life. None are immune. The only difference is where the source of comfort, rest, and the ability to overcome trails comes from.

What Job needed was someone to mourn with him in all that he had lost. Instead greater heartbreak is given him. It made me think of the words of Alma and the baptismal covenant that we make.

"Yea, and are willing to mourn with those that mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even until death, that ye may be redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the first resurrection, that ye may have eternal life—"

(Mosiah 18:9)

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