There were hypocrites trying to condemn Job. There were “hypocrites …
trying to trap” Jesus (Matthew 22:18). In both cases, they had to give
up – “they had found no way to refute Job” (Job 32:3); “No-one could say
a word in reply” to Jesus (Matthew 22:46). The testimony of God’s
people is summed up in Psalm 18:17-18: “He rescued me from my powerful
enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. They confronted me in
the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support.”
" ... Will you ... come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, We are safe" - safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears My Name become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord" (Jeremiah 7:8-11). “God demands a conversion of the mind and heart as the basis of peace and security (cf. Is 26:3), not the superstitious veneration of a stone building or a traditionally sacred site” ( R K Harrison , Jeremiah ).
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