{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "7th February 2022", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/675507467624595456/", "html": "

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Why does the Lord of the Sea take people\u2019s souls, and how can we keep our own souls safe when we\u2019re out at sea?

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A similar conversation plays out in the Book of Job. The devil is trying to take Job\u2019s soul:

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I don\u2019t remember this part of the Book of Job. What translation of the Bible are you reading?

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The Book of Job is really pretty short. This is from the King James Version (translated by William Tyndale). The Book of Job begins like this:

\u201cThen the Lord said to Satan: \u2018Where have you

gone, and wherein have you defiled yourself? For

hear! From my lips, from the Almighty Lord of all

being, who has made the expanse above the earth.

Who separates the waters from the sea, and makes it

go down below the horizon. Who makes the river into

a mighty flood and the dry land into a river, setting

apart the sea with His right hand, and forming it

with His left hand, dividing the river into the seven

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Satan responds:

“How canst thou dispute with me,

thou vain and ignorant man? wilt thou try

me

with words? Knowest thou not that I have power

to put thee to death? and now thou

\n</a><a href=\"https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/\">https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org</a>\n\n</blockquote>\n Job then accuses the devil of tricking him:\n\n<blockquote>1 And Job said to the Lord:\n\n 2 Whence comest thou to me, that I may learn\n of thee? and where goest thou?\n\n 2 And the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and\n said:\n\n 3 Girdle, the loins of my trousers,\n and spare\n me not.\n\n 4 For whoso despiseth

5 And Job continued his discourse: and the Lord said:

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I guess it\u2019s all right, since Job just started a book about how unfair God is to him. We\u2019re reading the KJV because that\u2019s the version God used to speak directly to him. We don\u2019t know why God used to speak directly to him (for the same reason the devil is here: because Job sinned in some way) \u2013 but if you\u2019re in an argument with someone, sometimes it\u2019s better to read the things they say they believe than to ask them what they meant.

That\u2019s the first thing I had to pick out \u2013 I only read the first couple of pages and it was too short to tell what Job meant \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t seem obviously wrong, and it\u2019s something I\u2019ve often wondered about.

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