September 28, 2023
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Reading along with us in Job? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 9 (NIV)
Job
1 Then Job replied:
2“Indeed, I know that this is true.
But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?
3 Though they wished to dispute with him,
they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.…..Continue Reading
Job confronts the idea that we can not understand God because we are mere men in this chapter. He considers the idea that while he thinks himself to be blameless and this punishment unfounded, he can never be sure because He is not God and can not share his thinking. He recognizes God’s power and vastness far exceeds anything we could grasp but it also leaves him feeling helpless to even plead his case before God. His desire for a mediator speaks to the coming of Jesus and helps us to see our own need through his example. Our own weakness, frailty, and shortcomings keep us from true relationship with God and yet Jesus provides a way to righteousness before God.
Job 9:20 memory verse, good for me to read it again. It goes with 9:2, to realize that compared to God, no flesh is justified, nor ever can be. Without faith, we understand also, that God cannot be pleased. We must approach God believing and knowing that He is GOD! He will reward those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11.
I think Job is that kind of man, and he is in a deep state of real agony, he just grapples with his faith.
“If I wolde iuftifie my felf, mine owne mouthe fhal condemne me: if I wolde be perfite, he fhal iudge me wicked.” Verse 20 in the 1560.
Marginal note explains,
“If I wolde ftand in mine owne defence, yet God hathe iufte caufe to condemn me, if he examine mine heart & confcience.”
May we have a better heart to those suffering than Job’s three friends. Peace, Gordy!
Hello church family, Job is too heavy for me right now so I will be reading from Proverbs while I get acclimated to a new job and a new routine. Thank you for sharing your comments on this site. I find them insightful and enlightening.
Proverbs 21:26 All day long he craves for more, but the righteous give without sparing. God blesses us monetarily so that we can provide for ourselves and give to others in need. The more we have, the more we should give. When the time has come for us to go to our heavenly home, it is best to be financially poor and spiritually wealthy.
Job seems to concede Bildad’s harsh judgement (“Indeed, I know this is true”. God’s is just and “won’t reject the blameless” but he still he can’t honestly see his misfortunes as a particular judgement for some equally great hidden sin by himself or his sons as Bildad mistakenly believes.
“But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?
…Though I were innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.”
Job 9
Job is reasoning that no man can be just before God and he is right for who can come before the God of creation. Job lists a few of the things that God can do to make a point. And then compares his own frailness as a human being. So how could he begin to justify himself before God. For there is no mediator between God and man. [ Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.] verse 33. But thank God He sent His Son to die on the cross for us taking on all our sins that we might be able to come to Him. Jesus the only Mediator between God and man. Thank God for His provision. God bless us all.
Bildad. Says the same thing as his friends. The wicked will be punished by God. What a great new revelation!! Job’s words prove he is far above the wisdom of his so called friends. Who can argue with such a God. Who set ALL things in place. Can anyone blame job for becoming impatient or confused why. As he examines himself over and over and considers himself a righteous man. If he only had a glimpse of how many people would read his words and find comfort knowing our momentary problems are nothing compared to the glory we have waiting for us
Job 9
Job 9
“For He is not a man, as I am,
That I may answer Him,
And that we should go to court together.
33 Nor is there any mediator between us,
Who may lay his hand on us both.
34 Let Him take His rod away from me,
And do not let dread of Him terrify me.
35 Then I would speak and not fear Him,
But it is not so with me.”
Job 9