Reading
SAA Notes
Job reacts bitterly to Zophar’s implied criticism of Job’s great sin. 13:1,4 Job knows that his friends are not perfect Christians. They too leave much to be desired in the manner of their lives. In wonderful divine irony, Jesus utters Job’s words in 13:23 when He argued with the Jews, (John 8:46) and when He stood before Caiaphas. (John 18:23) Jesus knew how Job felt!
SJA Notes
* Lord God, mark us as a people who make peace – That we would be Your children.
“Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.”
There are some striking similarities between words of Job and those of the preacher that wrote Ecclesiastes.
In Ecclesiastes 6 we read,
“For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vail life, which he passes like a shadow.”
Job is wrestling with the same thing the preacher did! Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.
Where does that leave us?
As in Ecclesiastes, there is a strong truth undergirding this sorrow and wrestling, one that we can grasp hold of.
Job says,
“Though he slay me, I will hope in him;”
Here is a powerful sounding of the reality of God’s sovereignty and our lives within His will.
We are able to approach our Lord God in prayer, cast our cares on Him, even in the most shocking and troubling of sorrow.
We have a hope that goes beyond even death!
“Though he slay me, I will hope in him;”
May this be a cry that we hold to throughout our life.
* Father God,
Please help us understand a little from this passage today, as we read of the arguments from Job and his friends.
Please help us understand You a little better, and little more of how we can relate to You.
Thank You that through Jesus we can have a right relationship with You.
Thank You that our hope in You is a hope that goes beyond death here on earth, that goes into eternal life.
Thank You Lord!
Amen.