corona also knows the meaning of a crown, here an image from The Hague of a crown with a sharp arrow through it.

word definition: Corona is a Latin girl name. It means 'crown'. Extra info: Where is it used? The name Corona is mainly used in Germany.

Rijswijk, Tue and Wed Mar 17 and 18. 2020

After the appearance of the Coronavirus and the discovery of a lot of pain, worry and anxiety in the Netherlands, or in fact now all over the world, I dive into Job's book again.

Because after all, which story better illustrates real pain, fear and anxiety?

So there was a little more need for me to share with you about this story, a story that still touches me every moment.

Especially at this moment, because now I myself can experience a considerable pain in my left leg. My left leg has become a very painful leg.

Fortunately I can still stand on it and go to the toilet with me, but I am happy when I am back in my bed. And then I rest my leg on a pillow and feel how it is throbbing in my upper leg. Every now and then I turn on my right side in a bad position and sometimes I manage not to feel the pain. Sometimes I succeed, I forget the pain and I fall asleep. And when I wake up again, I am happy for my pain that was gone for a while.

Therefore here a little more explanation about this very special story.

After the test that God knew about, Satan tested Job up to 2x very strongly (Job 1: 6-11 and Job 2: 1-6)

So after the first trial, Job lost all his wealth.
Job lost in 1 time all his children (7 sons + 3 daughters) and all his cattle (Job 1: 12-19 / reaction Job 1: 20-22 on the 1st incident)

We read here: Then Job got up, ripped all his clothes as a sign of his great sorrow, and then shaved his entire head and fell to the ground. (Job1: 20)

But we also learn that Job subsequently became
facing a terribly painful disease.
See Job 2: 7 / 2nd reaction Job 2: 8)

Job's wife then advised her husband to just curse God and just die. (Job 2: 9)
But Job thought that was just silly talk from his wife. (Job 2:10)

And then we learn in Job 2:11 that 3 friends are going to visit Job. They bear the names Elifaz, Bildad and Sofar and come from different places.

When they recognized Job, they were very shocked, cried terribly, tore their clothes and threw sand in the air. (Job 2:12) and

for 7 days and nights they sat on the floor with Job and said nothing at all because they saw that the use of words was very lacking.

(Job 2:13)

And then Job suddenly breaks that silence and tells his freinds  that he should never have been born. (Job 3)

1 of his comments: "Why does God give unfortunate light and sorrowful life? (Job 3: 20-21)"

Then the 1st response from a friend: can you still bear it if I speak to you now, but who could be silent now? (Job 4: 1-2)

If God cannot even trust his own messengers and even make mistakes with his angels, will he be able to do so with physical beings who live in mud huts and who can be crushed even more easily than moths? (Job 4: 18-19)

Eliphaz then advises Job: Go to God and explain your situation to Him. (Job 5: 8)

Hans: I fell asleep and wake up to the basonet of my friend Henk. I don't understand how it is possible.

And I continue with one of the many reactions from Job who then says for example to his friends:

My brothers are just as unreliable as a stream that rises when there is ice and snow, but dries up when it gets hot. (Job 6: 16-17)

Next: Text from the book of Job 6

If only for what I long for most, God would allow me to be crushed and delivered from his painful grip.

Then I would still find comfort, knowing joy, despite this excruciating pain, because the words of the saint I have not neglected God.

Oh, why does my strength still keep me going?

How can I be patient waiting for death?

Am I sometimes as strong as a stone?

Is my body made of copper?

I am absolutely helpless and have no hope whatsoever!

Whoever does not feel sorry for a friend who suffers shows no respect for the Almighty

(Job 6: 8-14)

When I go to bed I always think:

If only it was morning again

and then I'm tossing until it gets light again. (Job 7: 4)

I have to talk about what torments me.

I must be able to express my bitter feelings! (Job 7:11)

So here I see clearly that Job brings out his body of pain.

But what can the other do with that?

So then his friend Bildat speaks to Job:

How long will you go on like this for Job?

(Job 8: 2)

We were born yesterday and know almost nothing. Our time on earth glides past like a shadow. (Job 8: 9)

A man without God relies on a spider web. Everything he relies on collapses beneath him. If he thinks he is safe in his house, it will collapse.

(Job 8: 14-15)

The people who hate you,

will be filled with shame

and the wicked will be destroyed.

(Job 8:22)

Where Job finally reacted to Bildad:

Of course, I know that too.

You don't tell me anything new. How could a man ever be righteous in the eyes of God?

(Job 9: 2)

Innocent and guilty,

it is the same for Him,

for he destroys both.

He mocks the innocent's despair when he is hit by disasters.

When the whole world is in the hands of the wicked, God blinds the eyes of the judges.

If it isn't He who does that,

who is it then?

(Job 9: 22-24)

Let Him stop beating me so that I no longer have to live in fear of His punishment! (Job 9:34)

Ah please remember,

that I am only made of cloth,

will you turn me back to dust so soon? (Job 10: 9)

When You Made Me,

did you intend to punish me for sinning?

(Job 10: 13-14)

Finally Sofar's 3rd friend answers to Job:

This flood of words just asks for an answer! Someone is not right just because he talks so much? Should I keep quiet while I hear your nonsense?? (Job 11: 2).

Do you know the thoughts and plans of God?

(Job 11: 7)

It is just as impossible for an ordinary mortal to become wise as for a human foal to be born. (Job 11:12)

And then I thought of that strange image in the center of The Hague.

A woman-man with a kind of veal of man with strange animal head on head instead of human head on head. Could the maker have also known this text from Job 11:12?

But the Wicked cannot escape, their only prospect is death. (Job 11:20)

And so Job replied to Sofar and his other 2 friends:

Really, you have the wisdom in your hands! When you die, wisdom will be over!

(Job 12: 1-2)

(For me this is a great answer of Job!)

Why do I appreciate this comment so much?

Like Job, I also have a lot of trouble with the people who all want to shout that they really all know so much and much better, even though this is not the case at all.

But Job also kicks this against the Holy Houses of his friends.

I like to read on: Job now speaks to his 3 friends who spoke in Job12: 3.

But I also know a few things, I am really no less than you. The things you have said are so general that anyone can tell me.

In Job 12: 5-6 read: Those who live in prosperity ridicule those who can barely keep their heads above water.

The robbers' tents are left alone, and those who challenge God believe they can prescribe the law.

In Job 12:13 But only God has true wisdom and power. Only with Him can we go for advice and insight.

In Job 12:22 He uncovers the secrets of the deep darkness and dispels light with dark shadows

(So I think this is a beautiful imagery)

Job further concludes about his 3 friends in Job 13: 4-9

You try to talk to me about lies. You are a bunch of quacks. Please keep quiet!

That would be more evidence of wisdom.

Now listen to me, my arguments and plea.

Do you keep pretending to speak on behalf of God even though He never said the things that you put in your mouth?

Would God want you to help Him by twisting the truth for Him?

Did you think He didn't notice you?

Or do you sometimes think that God is as easy to deceive as humans?

Job13: 23-24 Please tell me what exactly I did wrong. Make it clear to me what my sin is! Why are you hiding from me? You accuse me of evil things and bring back all the sin of my youth (Job 13:26) (I recognize this from myself)
From Job's thought about man:

Oh God, just hide me between the dead and forget about me until your wrath has subsided.

You left me to think about me again after a while. If a man dies, will he revive again?

That thought could give me hope during my hard existence, then I would have prospects of redemption. (Job 14: 14-16)

You turn against man and he just disappears from the earth. You give him an old and wrinkled face and then send him away. He never knows if his children will go far or if they fail and fall. He does not notice. For him there is only pain and sorrow.

(Job 14: 20-22)
Then Eliphaz speaks again to Job:

But first, the MEANING & DEFINITION of Elifaz

Eliphaz "the Themanite" = son of Theman, the great-grandson of Esau (Gen. 36:10 ff.),

The first and most important of the three friends of Job, who indicates the tone with which the others agree further. While assuming the ordinary human understanding of righteousness, he thinks that he can transfer this to God indefinitely, and instead of testing his experiences, his concepts, against the extraordinary behavior of God with Job, he makes what he already has as a measure of what is new in Job's destiny, and does not want to learn, hear, receive, but teach and judge. Thus he sticks to the decision: Since God is just, He can only punish the unrighteous man; who is thus punished is an unjust man. Eliphaz takes great pride in his old age and experience (15: 10), and bases his reflections partly on a special divine revelation, which he has been given in a dream, but which he only knows how to apply to himself. chapter 4), partly in the sense phrases of the elderly (15:20 ff.), which however may not count indefinitely as truth. After leaving general and partly undeniable truths pronounced and justifying his personal application to Job himself in both his first reasoning, in his third reasoning (chapter 22) he confirms even more harshly than the other two friends, Job's guilt and reproach He is quite arbitrary of such transgression and negligence sins from which Job was most distant, and instead of gaining further recognition through Job's objections, he always affirms himself more in his conceived system. As the spokesman and guilty of the three friends, he is expressly righted by God (42: 7).