Job : Gods humble servant
A Puzzle Piece of a Play in One Scene
and Three Acts
By
Katherine Reyna
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Katherine Reyna
9213 Southmoor Ave.
Highland IN 46322
219-743-2735
“CHARACTERS”
Eliphaz The Temanite
Bildad The
Shuhite
Zophar The
Naamathite
Elihu Son of
Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram whose wrath was aroused against Job because he justified
himself rather than God.
Elihu
My friend wait for the Lord to justify you. What can you be certain about in your
life? Only the LORD. Wait for His reply.
Job
My God! My God! Do not dely!
Blessed are those who regard the weak counted blessed among the land and
not given over the their foes. Have
mercy on me Lord, heal me as those among the weak in their bed! Ps 41
Because of my integrity you uphold me,,praise be to the LORD
from everlasting to everlasting amen and amen.
My tears have been my food, all of you say where is your
God. Why my soul so disturbed within me?
My soul is downcast within me. Deep calls to deep in the roar of your
waterfalls, all your waves an breakers…ps42
Why must I go about mourning oppressed by your enemy. Friends all day long ask where is your
God! Oh why my soul are you downcast?
Ps42
Rescue me, my stronghold, why have you rejected me, why must
I go about mourning, save me bring me to the holy mt to where I will praise my
God. Why my soul are you down cast? Why so disturbed within me? I will praise Him my savior and my God. Ps43
Job There
was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and
upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil. And seven sons and three daughters were born
to him. JOB 1:1
1.
Scene 1
Act 1
Chaldeans and Sabeans
take away Jobs oxen and donkeys.
Then killed the servants with the edge of the sword. Then the Chaldeans formed three bands, raided
the camels and took them away. This
happened on three different accounts.
Then Jobs sons and daughters were killed in a weather disaster.
Job
(Arose then and tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he
fell to the ground and worshipped. )
Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return
there. The Lord gave and the Lord taken
away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
You have made us a byword they shake their heads at us,
taughnts and reproaches from the enemy bent on revenge! You crushed us,
covering us over in deep darkness. Yet
for you sake me face death all day long, wake LORD, why do you hide your face,
our bodies cling to the ground, rescue us from the dirt, PS44
My children, forgive me.
My wife, my family, my God how shall I covet all that you command?
Black out
2.
Scene 1
Act 2
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity
that had come upon him, each one came from his own place. They had made an appointment to come together
to come mourn with him and to comfort him.
And when they raised their eyes from afar, and did not recognize him,
each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on his head toward heaven. So they sat down with him on the ground seven
days and seven nights and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his
grief was very great.
Job
(Scratching painful
boils on his skin from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head, and he
took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the
midst of the ashes)
May the day perish on which I was born, and the night in
which it was said, a male child is conceived.
The Almighty is my refuge! I will extol, glory, and exalt
and rejoice on the LORD. He delivered me from all my fears, and the angel of
the LORD delivers those who fear the LORD.
Those who fear Him lack nothing. Ps34
Turn from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it. Those who do evil will be blotted out from
all the earth. Many troubles but the
Lord delivers the righteous from them all!
No one who takes refuge in Him will be condemned! Ps35
Eliphaz
If one attempts a word with you will you become weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Surely you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. You words have upheld him who was stumbling,
and you have strengthened the feeble knees;
but now it comes upon you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you
are troubled.
Job
Oh, that my grief were fully weighed, and my calamity laid
with it on the scales!
Lord…your arrows have pierced me, my guilt had overwhelmed
me to heavy, wounds fester, because of my sinful folly, I’m brought low, no
health in my feeble crushed body. All my
sighing is unhidden, heart pounds, strength fails me, all avoid me because of
my wounds, evil set and sceme an lie of me. Your hand has come down upon me. Your wrath.
All day mong I go about mourning, my back has seering pain. My anguish my longings go about you all
day. The light has gone from my
eyes! Those who want me dead set their
traps. Those who wan to harm me. I wait for you lord my God, you will answer
for I said I am about to fall. Many hav
become my enemy without cause, lodging accusations against me. Come! Come quickly! Ps38
I’ve become as one with no reply or cannot hear. LORD my pain is ever with me, I confess my
iniquity. Many are my enemies without
cause, lodge accusations against me, LORd donot forske me my savior my LORD PS
38
I said I will watch my ways and keep my words from sin. PS38
Bildad
How long will you speak these things and the words of your
mouth be like a strong wind?
Get a grip, do not fret, the evil will die away, trust in
the LORd and do good, dwell in the land, take delight, trust and commit your
way in Him and he will make your vindication shine like a new days sun. Be still, trust, turn from wrath, do not fret
it leads to evil, hope in the LORD, and the meek will enjoy the land, while the
wicked will knish their teeth, draw sword, bend bow and their swords will be
broken. The power of the wicked will be
broken. The blameless spend their days
under the LORDS care. Days of famine
they will enjoy plenty. The wicked will
borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give gernerously.
I was young and now old, yet I’ve never seen the rightouse
forsaken or the children begging. Turn from evil and do good. The LORD loves the just, the offspring of the
wicked will perish, the righteous toungue speaks what is just, the wicked lie
and wait for the rightoues but the LORD will not let them, and the wicked will
be dtroyed and you will see it, the flourishing tree found no more when seeked. There will be no future for the wicked. Salvation is the stronghold, helping them,
delivering in those who take refuge in Him. Psalm 37
Black Out
6.
Scene 1
Act 3a.
Job
I know that Thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of Thine can be
thwarted. Who is this that hides counsel
without knowledge? Therefore I have
declared that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I
did not know. Here, now, and I will
speak; I will ask Thee, and do Thou instruct me. I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the
ear; But now my eye sees Thee; Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust and
ashes.
God Restores Job’s Fortunes
Jobs
brothers and sisters all who known him before came to him, and they ate bread
with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the evil
that the Lord had brought on him. And
each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold. And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job
more than his beginning, and he had 14,000 sheep, and 6,000 camels, and 1,000
yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
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The END
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