Job 21
Job appears to have given up complaining about his friends here, his complaint is with the God that allowed catastrophe to overtake him.
Anybody can see how humiliated Job has been and it is shocking.
Job's friends arguments rest on the fact that bad things happen to bad people and the wicked do not prosper - "Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?"
Job states that all too often people who want nothing to do with God seem to live lives without worry and care, their families and property are secure - however their wealth does not entirely rest with them, so Job stands aloof from the plans of the wicked.
Job asks if anyone can teach wisdom to God and that one man dies in full vigour, well nourished and rich, while another man dies in bitterness of soul never having experienced anything good - yet both have the same grave, covered in the earth and worms.
"I know full well what you are thinking my "friends"" Job continued " the schemes that you would wrong me"
Where is the house of the wicked - his friends ask?
Yet if they only ask people who travel, they can tell of countless wicked people who live in peace, surrounded by friends and living well and are mourned when they die.
Job 22
Eliphaz answers this time - "Can a man be of benefit to God? Even a wise person benefit him? Would it please God if you were righteous , what would God gain if you are blameless?"
Do you think God is rebuking you for being pious and charging you?
Your wickedness is evident and your sins endless.
Eliphaz then accuses Job of the following -
Job appears to have given up complaining about his friends here, his complaint is with the God that allowed catastrophe to overtake him.
Anybody can see how humiliated Job has been and it is shocking.
Job's friends arguments rest on the fact that bad things happen to bad people and the wicked do not prosper - "Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?"
Job states that all too often people who want nothing to do with God seem to live lives without worry and care, their families and property are secure - however their wealth does not entirely rest with them, so Job stands aloof from the plans of the wicked.
Job asks if anyone can teach wisdom to God and that one man dies in full vigour, well nourished and rich, while another man dies in bitterness of soul never having experienced anything good - yet both have the same grave, covered in the earth and worms.
"I know full well what you are thinking my "friends"" Job continued " the schemes that you would wrong me"
Where is the house of the wicked - his friends ask?
Yet if they only ask people who travel, they can tell of countless wicked people who live in peace, surrounded by friends and living well and are mourned when they die.
Job 22
Eliphaz answers this time - "Can a man be of benefit to God? Even a wise person benefit him? Would it please God if you were righteous , what would God gain if you are blameless?"
Do you think God is rebuking you for being pious and charging you?
Your wickedness is evident and your sins endless.
Eliphaz then accuses Job of the following -
- Demanding security from relatives without cause
- Taking people's clothing and leaving them without a stitch to wear
- Withholding water from the thirsty
- And food from the hungry
- though he was rich he sent widows away with nothing
- Oppressed the fatherless.
this is why Job has been suffering - God from the highest heaven, yet Job asks if God does not see his suffering.
Job should turn away from the path of wickedness and submit and make peace with God and remove all wickedness from his tents.
Eventually God will even forgive a repentant Job who does the right things.
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