Job 18-21
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“Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood.”
The speeches of Job’s friends are turning more and more away from
compassion and more and more toward cruelty. Now instead of just saying that Job had sinned, they are
saying that he is completely wicked.
They also don’t seem to have questioned themselves at all, believing
they are right. Zophar says, “my
understanding inspires me to reply.”
I can’t help but keep thinking about the verse from Isaiah:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, “ declares the Lord. “As the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Job’s friends thought they had it all figured out. If you are good, good things will
happen; if you are wicked, bad things will happen. But Job points out that this is not always the case. Sometimes the wicked actually do
prosper.
I love the glimmer of hope and faith that shows up once again in
the midst of Job’s pain and confusion: “I know that my Reedemer lives, and
that in the end he will stand upon the earth.”
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