Book of Job bible study chapters 11 through 20

 

            This bible study continues the dialog with Job and his three friends which first started towards the beginning of the book of Job, chapter 3, and the dialog going back and forth between Job and then one of his friends answering. Job and his three friends, Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar all speak in turns in this passage of scripture. This is a continuation of the first bible study on Job, so please check the link below:

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In chapter 11 Zophar takes a turn speaking to Job

(Job 11:1)  Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

 

(Job 11:2)  "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?

 

(Job 11:3)  Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

 

(Job 11:4)  For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'

 

(Job 11:5)  But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you,

 

(Job 11:6)  and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

 

(Job 11:7)  "Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

 

(Job 11:8)  It is higher than heaven--what can you do? Deeper than Sheol--what can you know?

 

(Job 11:9)  Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

 

(Job 11:10)  If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?

 

(Job 11:11)  For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

 

(Job 11:12)  But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man!

 

(Job 11:13)  "If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.

 

(Job 11:14)  If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.

 

(Job 11:15)  Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear.

 

(Job 11:16)  You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

 

(Job 11:17)  And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

 

(Job 11:18)  And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security.

 

(Job 11:19)  You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will court your favor.

 

(Job 11:20)  But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."

 

In chapters 12 through 14 Job makes his reply to all this:

(Job 12:1)  Then Job answered and said:

 

(Job 12:2)  "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

 

(Job 12:3)  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

 

(Job 12:4)  I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

 

(Job 12:5)  In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.

 

(Job 12:6)  The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.

 

(Job 12:7)  "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

 

(Job 12:8)  or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

 

(Job 12:9)  Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

 

(Job 12:10)  In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

 

(Job 12:11)  Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

 

(Job 12:12)  Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

 

(Job 12:13)  "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.

 

(Job 12:14)  If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

 

(Job 12:15)  If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

 

(Job 12:16)  With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

 

(Job 12:17)  He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

 

(Job 12:18)  He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

 

(Job 12:19)  He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.

 

(Job 12:20)  He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

 

(Job 12:21)  He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.

 

(Job 12:22)  He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.

 

(Job 12:23)  He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

 

(Job 12:24)  He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless waste.

 

(Job 12:25)  They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

 

(Job 13:1)  "Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

 

(Job 13:2)  What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

 

(Job 13:3)  But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

 

(Job 13:4)  As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

 

(Job 13:5)  Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!

 

(Job 13:6)  Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

 

(Job 13:7)  Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him?

 

(Job 13:8)  Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God?

 

(Job 13:9)  Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

 

(Job 13:10)  He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.

 

(Job 13:11)  Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?

 

(Job 13:12)  Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

 

(Job 13:13)  "Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

 

(Job 13:14)  Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

 

(Job 13:15)  Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.

 

(Job 13:16)  This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.

 

(Job 13:17)  Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

 

(Job 13:18)  Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.

 

(Job 13:19)  Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

 

(Job 13:20)  Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face:

 

(Job 13:21)  withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.

 

(Job 13:22)  Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.

 

(Job 13:23)  How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

 

(Job 13:24)  Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

 

(Job 13:25)  Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?

 

(Job 13:26)  For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

 

(Job 13:27)  You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.

 

(Job 13:28)  Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

 

(Job 14:1)  "Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

 

(Job 14:2)  He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

 

(Job 14:3)  And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

 

(Job 14:4)  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

 

(Job 14:5)  Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

 

(Job 14:6)  look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

 

(Job 14:7)  "For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.

 

(Job 14:8)  Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,

 

(Job 14:9)  yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.

 

(Job 14:10)  But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

 

(Job 14:11)  As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up,

 

(Job 14:12)  so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.

 

(Job 14:13)  Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

 

(Job 14:14)  If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.

 

(Job 14:15)  You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.

 

(Job 14:16)  For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;

 

(Job 14:17)  my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.

 

(Job 14:18)  "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;

 

(Job 14:19)  the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.

 

(Job 14:20)  You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.

 

(Job 14:21)  His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

 

(Job 14:22)  He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself."

 

Chapter 15 Eliphaz answers to what Job is saying

(Job 15:1)  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

 

(Job 15:2)  "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

 

(Job 15:3)  Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?

 

(Job 15:4)  But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.

 

(Job 15:5)  For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

 

(Job 15:6)  Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

 

(Job 15:7)  "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

 

(Job 15:8)  Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

 

(Job 15:9)  What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

 

(Job 15:10)  Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.

 

(Job 15:11)  Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?

 

(Job 15:12)  Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

 

(Job 15:13)  that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?

 

(Job 15:14)  What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

 

(Job 15:15)  Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

 

(Job 15:16)  how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

 

(Job 15:17)  "I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare

 

(Job 15:18)  (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,

 

(Job 15:19)  to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).

 

(Job 15:20)  The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

 

(Job 15:21)  Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

 

(Job 15:22)  He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

 

(Job 15:23)  He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

 

(Job 15:24)  distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.

 

(Job 15:25)  Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,

 

(Job 15:26)  running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;

 

(Job 15:27)  because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist

 

(Job 15:28)  and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;

 

(Job 15:29)  he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;

 

(Job 15:30)  he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.

 

(Job 15:31)  Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.

 

(Job 15:32)  It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.

 

(Job 15:33)  He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.

 

(Job 15:34)  For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

 

(Job 15:35)  They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."

 

In chapters 16 and 17 Job replies

(Job 16:1)  Then Job answered and said:

 

(Job 16:2)  "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

 

(Job 16:3)  Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

 

(Job 16:4)  I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.

 

(Job 16:5)  I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

 

(Job 16:6)  "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

 

(Job 16:7)  Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

 

(Job 16:8)  And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.

 

(Job 16:9)  He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

 

(Job 16:10)  Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.

 

(Job 16:11)  God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

 

(Job 16:12)  I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;

 

(Job 16:13)  his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.

 

(Job 16:14)  He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.

 

(Job 16:15)  I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.

 

(Job 16:16)  My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,

 

(Job 16:17)  although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

 

(Job 16:18)  "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

 

(Job 16:19)  Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.

 

(Job 16:20)  My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

 

(Job 16:21)  that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.

 

(Job 16:22)  For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

 

(Job 17:1)  "My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

 

(Job 17:2)  Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

 

(Job 17:3)  "Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will put up security for me?

 

(Job 17:4)  Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

 

(Job 17:5)  He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property-- the eyes of his children will fail.

 

(Job 17:6)  "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

 

(Job 17:7)  My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.

 

(Job 17:8)  The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

 

(Job 17:9)  Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

 

(Job 17:10)  But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

 

(Job 17:11)  My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

 

(Job 17:12)  They make night into day: 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.'

 

(Job 17:13)  If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,

 

(Job 17:14)  if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'

 

(Job 17:15)  where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

 

(Job 17:16)  Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

 

In chapter 18 of Job Bildad then replies

(Job 18:1)  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

 

(Job 18:2)  "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.

 

(Job 18:3)  Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?

 

(Job 18:4)  You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

 

(Job 18:5)  "Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

 

(Job 18:6)  The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

 

(Job 18:7)  His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down.

 

(Job 18:8)  For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.

 

(Job 18:9)  A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.

 

(Job 18:10)  A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

 

(Job 18:11)  Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

 

(Job 18:12)  His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

 

(Job 18:13)  It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

 

(Job 18:14)  He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors.

 

(Job 18:15)  In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation.

 

(Job 18:16)  His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

 

(Job 18:17)  His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

 

(Job 18:18)  He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

 

(Job 18:19)  He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

 

(Job 18:20)  They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

 

(Job 18:21)  Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God."

 

Job replies in chapter 19

(Job 19:1)  Then Job answered and said:

 

(Job 19:2)  "How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?

 

(Job 19:3)  These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?

 

(Job 19:4)  And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

 

(Job 19:5)  If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,

 

(Job 19:6)  know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.

 

(Job 19:7)  Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

 

(Job 19:8)  He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

 

(Job 19:9)  He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.

 

(Job 19:10)  He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.

 

(Job 19:11)  He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.

 

(Job 19:12)  His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

 

(Job 19:13)  "He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.

 

(Job 19:14)  My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.

 

(Job 19:15)  The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

 

(Job 19:16)  I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.

 

(Job 19:17)  My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

 

(Job 19:18)  Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.

 

(Job 19:19)  All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.

 

(Job 19:20)  My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

 

(Job 19:21)  Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

 

(Job 19:22)  Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

 

(Job 19:23)  "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

 

(Job 19:24)  Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

 

(Job 19:25)  For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

 

(Job 19:26)  And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

 

(Job 19:27)  whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

 

(Job 19:28)  If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him,'

 

(Job 19:29)  be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."

 

Zophar replies again in chapter 20

(Job 20:1)  Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

 

(Job 20:2)  "Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.

 

(Job 20:3)  I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

 

(Job 20:4)  Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth,

 

(Job 20:5)  that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

 

(Job 20:6)  Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

 

(Job 20:7)  he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

 

(Job 20:8)  He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

 

(Job 20:9)  The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.

 

(Job 20:10)  His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.

 

(Job 20:11)  His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

 

(Job 20:12)  "Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

 

(Job 20:13)  though he is loath to let it go and holds it in his mouth,

 

(Job 20:14)  yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.

 

(Job 20:15)  He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

 

(Job 20:16)  He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.

 

(Job 20:17)  He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.

 

(Job 20:18)  He will give back the fruit of his toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.

 

(Job 20:19)  For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.

 

(Job 20:20)  "Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.

 

(Job 20:21)  There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

 

(Job 20:22)  In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress; the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.

 

(Job 20:23)  To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.

 

(Job 20:24)  He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.

 

(Job 20:25)  It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.

 

(Job 20:26)  Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.

 

(Job 20:27)  The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

 

(Job 20:28)  The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.

 

(Job 20:29)  This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."

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The loss of Job’s possessions and family were no doubt devastating, yet he bore it through, trusting God even though he likely never, ever understood what was going on. Jesus knew fully well that He would suffer a horrible death long before He did, but did it in love, wanting people to be forgiven of their sins, redeemed and in a right relationship with God. There is nothing that can be compared to a relationship with God, either, nothing at all. He is so good. I am now including a prayer which you can use to invite Jesus into your heart for this relationship to start or to come back to it, if you have drifted away for God is so merciful and good, not wanting any to be lost. Please pray this prayer with me:

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours