( 21 ) Job 9:4 He is wise in heart , and mighty in strength : who hath hardened "qashah" himself against him, and hath prospered ?
.. in strength who hath hard ..
( 22 ) Ps 95:8 Harden "qashah" not your heart , as in the provocation , and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness : {provocation: Heb. contention}
.. harden not your heart ..
The attitude to harden one's heart...
The flinching of teeth pressed together
The person who is stiff necked over the horizons of time
"I'm too busy" "Too busy to stop" "Things to do"
The stiff neck have no time, they are too busy with barter and trade.
"Just another dollar in business and I will be well"
The attitude of a stiff neck is always for more...
They trade with God...O for more leeks and onions...
All I have is this house, and poor clothes...?
Why can't you give me more riches O Lord ?
Arrr the stick neck demands of those never happy...
( 23 ) Pr 28:14 � Happy is the man that feareth alway : but he that hardeneth "qashah" his heart shall fall into mischief .
.. alway but he that hard ..
( 24 ) Pr 29:1 � He , that being often reproved hardeneth "qashah" his neck , shall suddenly be destroyed , and that without remedy . {He...: Heb. A man of reproofs}
.. that being often reproved hard ..
( 25 ) Isa 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead "qashah" and hungry : and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry , they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God , and look upward .
.. they shall pass through it, hardly hard ..
( 26 ) Jer 7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear , but hardened "qashah" their neck : they did worse than their fathers .
.. inclined their ear but hard ..
Notice the problem of a stiff neck is they do not listen
They are poor listeners...
They fail to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit when
times get heated...How hard it is to remain humble
expecially when under stress...
Instead we grissle and tighten our necks and foreskins
of our skull, and experience headaches and tension.
We become stiff necks, and feel the hard people around
us, and fight back.
As poor people under oppression by the proud,
the humble and meek have to learn to be quiet
when the opressors come and bear the heat
without fighting back. Do not open your mouth.
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb
to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
It's easy to become stiff necked and fight back.
Don't be tempted to Satan's ground. Feel Jesus power and humbly
accept the heat given you. Relax and smile for your reward is great.
Heb 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence,
which hath great recompence of reward.
It's easy to become stiff necked and fight back. Don't.
You have Jesus and eternity of power. Do not use human power to fight
back. Stay with Jesus and feel the heat of oppression and gladly smile
under it. For as you experience oppression the fire of afflictions
make you purer.
( 27 ) Jer 17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear , but made their neck stiff "qashah", that they might not hear , nor receive instruction .
.. ear but made their neck hard ..
( 28 ) Jer 19:15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts , the God of Israel ; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened "qashah" their necks , that they might not hear my words .
.. against it, because they have hard ..
Hardening the attitude to Jesus power in us, is a common sin to us all.
We resist Jesus power in us, or forget Him in the heat of oppression.
We go to our own self powered Baal effort that flows to nothing .
( 29 ) Ge 42:7 � And Joseph saw his brethren , and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly "qashah" unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said , From the land of Canaan to buy food . {roughly...: Heb. hard things with them}
.. unto them, and spake hard ..
( 30 ) Ge 42:30 The man , who is the lord of the land , spake roughly "qashah" to us, and took us for spies of the country . {roughly...: Heb. with us hard things}
.. the land spake hard ..
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