Job 9

Hugh Ross, for example, looks at Job chapter 9 and says right there you have an example of Big Bang cosmology.

Now, I may not disagree with him on Big Bang cosmology, but I absolutely disagree that Job 9 says anything about Big Bang cosmology.

I think that is reading something into the text the text isn't designed to say.

If you read, "He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea," and say, "Well, there you have it, Big Bang cosmology," I would say you probably don't know how to read the Bible for all it's worth.

It doesn't come naturally, which we'll find out as we go on.

Job.

That was a question that Job asked in Job 9 and verse 2.

It's in your notes.

But how can a man be made right before God? How can a man be made right? I mean, we're sinful.

And so we're going to learn that that's never the way that people get made righteous.

Matter of fact, it gave birth to two religious systems that exist in our world.

Two religious systems in your notes there under Job's quote.

So one thing that we know is that they would have been immersed in the Old Testament scriptures.

And it's very possible that as Jesus came walking on the water, they thought about verses like this in Job 9, verse 8.

We have here, it says, He who alone stretches out the heaven, he who walks on the sea as on firm ground.

That's Job describing Yahweh.

Readings for Holy Mass, the Memorial of Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church.

A reading from the Book of Job, chapter 9, verses 1-12 and 14-16.

Job answered his friends and said, I know well that it is so, but how can a man be justified before God, should one wish to contend with him? He could not answer him once in a thousand times.

God is wise in heart and mighty in strength.

Who has withstood him and remained unscathed? He removes the mountains before they know it.