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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. |
Subject: Job DID charge God foolishly? |
Bible Note: Dear Emmaus, I think the author of your article was confusing truth with sincerity. Sincerity neither makes an affirmation true nor necessarily acceptable to God. What Job said about God was right, but not because he was sincere in his pain, but because what he said was right. Contrary-wise, Job's friends saying what was not right about God had nothing to do with their sincerity. In fact, insincerity cannot be proved for either party on either side of the debate. What Job’s friends said about God was not insincere. It simply was not right. They said God orders suffering only for the wicked, and Job's suffering was ordered by God for some great wickedness on Job's part. Job's error was not what he said about God, but what he maintained about himself. He was righteous in his own eyes. Job 32:1 The Protestant or Reformed believer sees no righteousness in himself, but by faith hopes in the sufficiency of the finished work of Christ on the cross to cover all his unrighteousness and to cover him with a perfect righteousness that is totally alien to himself. So that they might say with Paul, "and [that I] may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith." Phil 3:9 The article also exults emotion over reason, a fatal an anti-biblical error. Peace, |