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NASB | Job 1:22 ¶ Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Job 1:22 ¶ Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God. |
Bible Question: Will someone please help reconcile Job 1:22 and 2:10 with Job 9:22-24? All my many commentaries often quote 1:22 in commendation of Job, but never fully explain the verses in chapter 9, or explain why God rebuked Job in the latter chapters of the book if Job sinned not with His lips or charged God foolishly. |
Bible Answer: Dear Baptistbred, I start by quoting Job 42:1-7: "Then Job answered the LORD and said, "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' "Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know." 'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.' "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes." It came about after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has."" Job did not charge God foolishly. This was not his sin. His sin is identified by Elihu in chapter 32 and following. Otherwise, what Job said about God, in contrast to what his friends said, was right by God’s own testimony. The passage in Job IX is referring to a man’s own guiltlessness. Job understood that no man can stand absolutely guiltless before God, and God in His absolute and terrible justice “destroys the guiltless…” The only way a man can stand guiltless before God is to be clothed in the perfect righteousness of Christ. To charge God foolishly is to accuse of God of doing wrong. This, Job did not do. As in chapter 42, in chapter 9 Job is declaring the absolute Sovereignty of God in all He does. In other words, Job was saying that no matter what God does it is right, and it's right just because it is God who does it. Peace, |