{"id":131,"date":"2010-09-25T07:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T11:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=131"},"modified":"2010-09-26T07:24:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T11:24:18","slug":"sounds-like-simple-wisdom-job-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Sounds like simple wisdom (Job 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How foolish are you Job?, asks Zophar, the Naamathite. There is a cause and effect relationship here. It is obvious to all that you are finally paying for your many sins. In fact, God is probably punishing you far <em>less <\/em>than you deserve!<\/p>\n<p> Zophar continues, &#8220;If only you would prepare your heart and lift up your hands to him in prayer! Get rid of your sins. Then your face would brighten with innocence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, if bad things have happened to you because you are a sinner, stop sinning and good things will happen to you. Sounds like simple wisdom. Too simple. As Zophar himself admits, &#8220;true wisdom is not a simple matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How foolish are you Job?, asks Zophar, the Naamathite. There is a cause and effect relationship here. It is obvious to all that you are finally paying for your many sins. In fact, God is probably punishing you far less than you deserve! Zophar continues, &#8220;If only you would prepare your heart and lift up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sounds like simple wisdom (Job 11)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}