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1 | Are Job's friends words true? | Job | Aixen7z4 | 149828 | ||
It is clear that many of the words spoken by Job’s friends were truth. One way to determine that is to compare their words to other words on the same subject recorded in other places in the Scriptures. Please note that Job sometimes agreed with them. For example, see his “yes, who does not know such things as these?” in chapter 12. What they had been saying was obviously true. But he had additional, deeper questions, for which they had no answer. What was the problem with their words, then? As in so many cases, some of what they were saying was the truth, but they were not speaking the whole truth. Notice how God responds in Job 42. He does not say that those men had not spoken truth. What he said was, “You have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job (has) ”. They had said the right thing about other things, but they had not said the right thing about God. The sum of their words to Job was that he was suffering because he had sinned. The pronouncement from God, however, was that Job was a righteous man: “a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil” (Chapter 1). They were saying that God would never treat him that way if indeed Job had been “perfect and righteous”. Of course, neither they nor Job were privy to the words that God had said to Satan. Also, they did not know Job’s heart or life as God did. But they were wrong to say that God would not treat a righteous person they way he was treating Job. That was a wrong thing to say, and a hurtful thing, was it not? Had God not corrected them we might still be befuddled today when we see the righteous suffer. The fact that Job recognized, and they did not, is that God is Sovereign and just, and will do what he wills, and what he does is right, though we sometimes fail to understand it. Note lastly that it was not the friends but Job himself to whom God said he had been darkening counsel by words without knowledge (Job 38). Job himself had not known the whole truth. As he would say, “I have spoken what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me; yea, I did not know” (Job 42). And we also do not know it all. But we have learned from Job’s experience, that God is Sovereign. Also, he is just, and good. Still, there are some things we do not know; secret things. The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. We can learn a lot from Job’s friends, I think, but they learned that they did not know everything. Now we know more than they did, but we still do not know everything. So though we speak what we do know, we can only encourage ourselves and each other to continue to meditate on the word of God. You will be able to say (as in Psalm 119) “ I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation”. Consider what I say, and the Lord will give you understanding in all things. |
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2 | Are Job's friends words true? | Job | seedling | 149952 | ||
Your answer helps a lot to understand the book of Job. Thankyou Seedling |
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