Job 17–18: Past Days & Shattered Plans
“My days have past,
my plans are shattered,
And so are the desires of my heart.”
Category: Personal Distress
Job 15–16: Scoffers & Struggle
“My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.”
Job 13–14: Ashes & Clay
“Your memorable sayings
are proverbs of ashes,
Your defenses are defenses of clay.”
Judges 7–11: Gideon & Battles
“A sword for Yahweh and for Gideon!”
Read MoreJob 11–12: Ease & Calamity
“He who is at ease holds
calamity in contempt,
As prepared for those whose feet slip.”
Job 9–10: Despair & Hope
“Were He to sweep by me,
I would not see Him;
Were He to move past me,
I would not perceive Him.
Were He to snatch away,
who could turn Him back?
Who could say to Him,
‘What are You doing?’”
Psalms 12–14: The Afflicted & The Psalms
But I have trusted in Your lovingkindness;
My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
Job 7–8: Sovereign & Love
“Why have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?”
Psalms 9–11: Sovereign & Faithful
“If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?”
Romans 8:31–39: “Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free”
Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
Read MoreJob 5–6: Words & Wind
“Do you intend to reprove my words,
When the words of one in despair
belong to the wind?”
Kindling for Candles 