Cipher 22. Job’s Reconciliation with God Numbered 77 77 77 77 (Job 42: 1-16)
1. WHO? (42:1) Job answered YHWH.
2. WHY? (42:2) Thou canst do all things. No purpose of thine can be restrained.
3. HOW learned? (42:3-4) This Job that hideth counsel without knowledge has learned which I knew not.
4. WHAT learned? (42.5) I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear from Elihu.
5. WHEN? (42:5) But now
6. WHERE is God? (42:5) Mine eye seeth thee, Wherefore.
7. WHICH way to righteousness? (42:6) I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.
Commentary: After Elihu provided true counsel to Job and praised God, God came into the presence of Job and preached His lengthy sermon. Then Job answered YHWH, “I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear.” Instead of God’s speech it was Elihu’s speech Job referred to, when he declared, “heard of you.” If Job had been referencing God’s speech it would have been phrased “from you” and not “of you.” Job’s inability to communicate directly with God and seeing the 4th true counselor on the cross as the necessary relationship of Elihu between God and Job caused Job to repent in dust and ashes. Elihu brought the righteousness that is right with God. Job learned that the righteousness God recognizes comes from another–not himself. After Job repented God gave him a new family, doubled his substance and instructed Job to form the cross with numbers that match the same numbers of “Jesus 77 Genealogy” Cross. (See Cipher 31)