{"id":152,"date":"2010-10-15T22:44:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T02:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=152"},"modified":"2010-10-15T22:44:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T02:44:39","slug":"job-rests-his-case-job-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Job rests his case (Job 31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job rests his case with these thoughts: <em> God is sovereign in the affairs of men. If He is not for me, he must be against me. If he is not blessing me, I must be under his curse. But here I must complain! I have done nothing wrong! I do not deserve this! &#8220;Let God weigh me on the scales of justice, for he knows my integrity.&#8221; Let me list for you the good things I have done, and the bad things I have not done. And let the Almighty answer me.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Is the sovereign God on trial? Is He the enemy? Is the One who sees and knows everything aloof? &#8220;What [then] is our inheritance from the Almighty on high?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job rests his case with these thoughts: God is sovereign in the affairs of men. If He is not for me, he must be against me. If he is not blessing me, I must be under his curse. But here I must complain! I have done nothing wrong! I do not deserve this! &#8220;Let God &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Job rests his case (Job 31)&#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":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}