Job 24 (WEB)

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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.

Person & place data: Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse (Viz.Bible), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Job 24 (WEB)

1“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty?

Why don’t those who know him see his days?

2There are people who remove the landmarks.

They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless,

and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

4They turn the needy out of the way.

The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,

they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food.

The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

6They cut their food in the field.

They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

7They lie all night naked without clothing,

and have no covering in the cold.

8They are wet with the showers of the mountains,

and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast,

and take a pledge of the poor,

10so that they go around naked without clothing.

Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

11They make oil within the walls of these men.

They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

12From out of the populous city, men groan.

The soul of the wounded cries out,

yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

13“These are of those who rebel against the light.

They don’t know its ways,

nor stay in its paths.

14The murderer rises with the light.

He kills the poor and needy.

In the night he is like a thief.

15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight,

saying, ‘No eye will see me.’

He disguises his face.

16In the dark they dig through houses.

They shut themselves up in the daytime.

They don’t know the light.

17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness,

for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

18“They are foam on the surface of the waters.

Their portion is cursed on the earth.

They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

19Drought and heat consume the snow waters,

so does Sheol those who have sinned.

20The womb will forget him.

The worm will feed sweetly on him.

He will be no more remembered.

Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

21He devours the barren who don’t bear.

He shows no kindness to the widow.

22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power.

He rises up who has no assurance of life.

23God gives them security, and they rest in it.

His eyes are on their ways.

24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone.

Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,

and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

25If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar,

and make my speech worth nothing?”

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