Job 20 (WEB)

God

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LORD, Lord, Father, hosts, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, last, JEHOVAH, Judge, father, lawgiver, Fathers, dayspring, host, Ancient
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Yahweh, the Personal Name of God

Word Study | Israel Loken • Hershel Wayne House
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh ·Strong's H3068

Strictly speaking, the only personal name of God belonging to Him alone, and the most significant name of God found in the Old Testament (over 5000 times).  Yahweh is the approximate (and likely) pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, the four-letter word YHWH.  When Moses asked what His name was to take back to the Hebrews in Egypt, God replied, “I AM THAT I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה ehyeh esher ehyeh): and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה, ehyeh, 1st person singular, giving God's declaration of His name) has sent me to you” (Exod 3:14).  Thus God revealed to Moses the very essential meaning of His name as Yahweh (יְהוָ֞ה, Yahweh, 3rd person singular, the response of the people of God, He is).  There is a strong indication that Jesus (or Yeshua, Yahweh is salvation) used this name and its divine implication to apply to himself when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (ἐγὼ εἰμί, egō eimi) (John 8:58).  Thus, the very Person who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush was the very same Person who addressed the startled Jews in the Gospel of John.

For a more complete discussion of the personal name of God, see the passage in Exodus in which He reveals His name to Moses, Exodus 3:14, 15.

A Name of God (אֱלֹהִים; 'elohim)

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House
אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym ·Strong's H430

This is a generic name for the divine being. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is regularly used in the plural in reference to the God of Israel but in regard to His majesty or intensity. The plural has a third person singular with the God of Israel, but a third plural with foreign deities.

Abba, Father

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House • Steve Stanley
Ἀββᾶ Abbâ ·Strong's G5

This Aramaic term is used only three times in the NT and approximately 80 times in the writings of the early church fathers when quoting or paraphrasing Jesus’ words. It is translated by the very next word in this verse as ὁ πατήρ (ho pater) “the Father,” as it is in all three NT uses. Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Hebrew, both languages being used in Israel. In Jesus’ day, abba was used for the father in the family, and was a customary title for God in prayer among the Jews. It was eventually taken over by Greek-speaking Christians as a liturgical formula. Some posit that abba is equivalent to “daddy,” an American English term for “father.” This assumes that the American informality expressed by children toward their father would have an analogy in Jesus’ culture, an assumption difficult to sustain. It is, therefore, not appropriate to refer to God as “daddy.” Linguistically, then, abba means "father" in Hebrew, Greek and English. It must be noted, however, that while “father” is a term of respect in biblical literature, it is also a term of affection, very deep and abiding affection. With His use of “Abba,” Jesus expresses His respectful and intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father in prayer, a wonderful example for all believers.

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Job 20 (WEB)

1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

2“Therefore my thoughts answer me,

even by reason of my haste that is in me.

3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame.

The spirit of my understanding answers me.

4Don’t you know this from old time,

since man was placed on earth,

5that the triumphing of the wicked is short,

the joy of the godless but for a moment?

6Though his height mount up to the heavens,

and his head reach to the clouds,

7yet he will perish forever like his own dung.

Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

8He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found.

Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

9The eye which saw him will see him no more,

neither will his place see him any more.

10His children will seek the favor of the poor.

His hands will give back his wealth.

11His bones are full of his youth,

but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

12“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,

though he hide it under his tongue,

13though he spare it, and will not let it go,

but keep it still within his mouth,

14yet his food in his bowels is turned.

It is cobra venom within him.

15He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again.

God will cast them out of his belly.

16He will suck cobra venom.

The viper’s tongue will kill him.

17He will not look at the rivers,

the flowing streams of honey and butter.

18He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down.

He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor.

He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

20“Because he knew no quietness within him,

he will not save anything of that in which he delights.

21There was nothing left that he didn’t devour,

therefore his prosperity will not endure.

22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him.

The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.

23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him.

It will rain on him while he is eating.

24He will flee from the iron weapon.

The bronze arrow will strike him through.

25He draws it out, and it comes out of his body.

Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver.

Terrors are on him.

26All darkness is laid up for his treasures.

An unfanned fire will devour him.

It will consume that which is left in his tent.

27The heavens will reveal his iniquity.

The earth will rise up against him.

28The increase of his house will depart.

They will rush away in the day of his wrath.

29This is the portion of a wicked man from God,

the heritage appointed to him by God.”

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