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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, U are absolutely right in your inferences! Up to Job 2:10 and the end of Chapter 2, Job did NOT sin with his lips. But he soon ran out of his little oil of the Holy Spirit of Love, and so with the sin of hate in his heart began to sin with his lips from Job 3:1! Notice how it is says: After this, Job 3 1 After this opened Job the lips of his mouth, and with his lips cursed his day. To curse the day he was born was to curse God who gave him his day of birth! And to sin by cursing, Job HAD to be hating his day! And so hating God by hating himself! Matthew 12:34-37: Out of the abundance of the Love or Hate in the heart the mouth speaks. So true enough by verse 25, he realises that the very thing he hates and so fears in Hate has come upon him! 1 John 4:18 But it is not until Job 42, that Job realises that it was because of his attitude of hate that what he hated came upon him, and that it was GOD who had sent what he hated un him! And why did God send it? To get him to start loving who and what God loves! Ezekiel 23 28 For thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: 29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. Then with repentance of the sin of hate for being wrong AFTER Job 42:6, God blesses him double for being doubly right: for now Job is not only right in what he does, he does right IN the right attitude of Love for those who are wrong! Please see Matthew 5:43-48 and Luke 18:9. Hope this helps. Love and Respect, Giam |