Wednesday 27th August Job 9.1-35

Qn. 3

“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God? Job agrees that he is a sinner, but not a hypocrite. He realizes that his sins wouldn’t be more punishable than those of the people he knows and yet who are safe. Why should he be the one to suffer? We also at times ask ourselves similar questions, saying, “Why all this to me?” Job doesn’t get any answer, yet he keeps his faith, his trust in God, whom he doesn’t deny as that’s what Satan was expecting (1.11, 25). Even if he speaks while sorrowful, he doesn’t accuse God at all (30-31). No one on this earth lives by righteousness; instead we live by faith (Rom. 3.24, 28). “There is no arbiter between us, …(33): Job needs an advocate or a mediator, as his friends and he can’t manage, they are talking about what they are not well informed about. There is a problem between him and God, and this is no other than Satan’s jealous and hatred towards all God’s people. Consider: We have a God full of love, which was manifested through Jesus, who reconciled us with God the Father. No circumstances, however much painful would separate us from God.