Week 33 Job
It’s Job’s voice talking in chapters 9-10 and it’s a pretty hard section to absorb. Job seems to be heading for trouble.
He knows very well there’s a huge power differential between the Lord and him. He knows that in a Q&A contest: he could not answer (the Lord) once in a thousand times. There is no contest.
But Job still makes some pretty unflattering and questionable comments about the Lord.
Things like…
The Lord would never listen to me
The Lord attacks me without reason
Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to (the Lord)…He destroys both the blameless and the wicked
He laughs when a plague suddenly kills the innocent
The whole earth is in the hands of the wicked, and God blinds the eyes of the judges and lets them be unfair
Even if I were to wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye to make them absolutely clean, (the Lord) would plunge me into a muddy ditch
And there’s more content like that in chapter ten.
If Job hated the Lord he’d likely say things like that. But whatever all else Job might hate he doesn’t hate the Lord. When his wife maniacally advised him to curse-God-and-die Job said: should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?
Still…even though Job’s belief & faith & heart are all in the right place his tongue is saying some crazily-dangerous things.
Note: quotes from Job 9:3 (NASB), 9:16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 30-31, 3:9-10 (NLT)