{"id":278886,"date":"2020-05-06T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=278886"},"modified":"2020-05-06T17:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:38:01","slug":"7-verses-from-the-book-of-job-to-meditate-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/7-verses-from-the-book-of-job-to-meditate-on\/","title":{"rendered":"7 verses from the Book of Job to meditate on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Orthodox Church celebrates the Righteous Job the Long-Suffering on Wednesday, May 6. In the context of this day, we have selected a few verses from the Old Testament book that we must meditate on at any time in our lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naked I came from my mother\u2019s womb, And naked shall I return there. The\u00a0Lord\u00a0gave, and the\u00a0Lord\u00a0has\u00a0taken away; Blessed be the name of the\u00a0Lord (Job 1:21)<\/li>\n<li>As long as my breath\u00a0is\u00a0in me, And the breath of God in my nostrils, My lips will not speak wickedness, Nor my tongue utter deceit (Job 27:3-4)<\/li>\n<li>But as for me, I would seek God, And to God I would commit my cause (Job 5:8)<\/li>\n<li>Behold,\u00a0happy\u00a0is\u00a0the man whom God corrects; Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. For He bruises, but He binds up; He wounds, but His hands make whole (Job 5:17-18)<\/li>\n<li>Now acquaint yourself with Him, and\u00a0be at peace; Thereby good will come to you.<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Receive, please,\u00a0instruction from His mouth, And\u00a0lay up His words in your heart (Job 22:21-22).<\/li>\n<li>The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life (Job 33:4).<\/li>\n<li>For I know\u00a0that\u00a0my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth (Job 19:25).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Vocea Br\u0103ilei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orthodox Church celebrates the Righteous Job the Long-Suffering on Wednesday, May 6. In the context of this day, we have selected a few verses from the Old Testament book that we must meditate on at any time in our lives. Naked I came from my mother\u2019s womb, And naked shall I return there. The\u00a0Lord\u00a0gave,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":278887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18771],"tags":[23259,23260],"class_list":["post-278886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality-en","tag-job","tag-the-book-of-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}