“Weeping may endure for a night,
but rejoicing comes in the
—Ps.30:5
Job’s Faith in God
In the last several chapters we jumped over, Job’s friends responded a second and even a third time with the same indignation, criticism, sarcasm, condemnation, and disgust.
Job continued to defend his “honor” by holding to his contention that he was treated unfairly by them and by God.
“Whether I talk about it or not it really doesn’t matter, I am not eased” (16:6). “God has worn me out. He has even allowed my friends to deal with me harshly and leave me desolate and without human sympathy.” “My opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.” Job is obviously referring to the adversary at work through human instruments because he goes on to say “‘They’ strike my cheek in scorn and ‘they’ unite themselves against me” (v.10).
Satan watches very closely the individual in the furnace of trial; even “sharpening his eyes,” as one translation puts it, to watch the man fall.
Jeremiah cried, “I have heard many whispering, ‘Terror on every side!’ . . . All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, ‘Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him’“ (Jer. 20:10).
No faithful servant of God has ever yet escaped this aspect of the fiery trial. King David found that “all day long they twist my words; they are always plotting to harm me. They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps, eager to take my life.”
“God has turned me over to evil men and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.”
And on it goes .
If you’re interested you can download the whole study of Job.
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Job’s Faith in God
“Weeping may endure for a night,
but rejoicing comes in the
—Ps.30:5
Job’s Faith in God
In the last several chapters we jumped over, Job’s friends responded a second and even a third time with the same indignation, criticism, sarcasm, condemnation, and disgust.
Job continued to defend his “honor” by holding to his contention that he was treated unfairly by them and by God.
“Whether I talk about it or not it really doesn’t matter, I am not eased” (16:6). “God has worn me out. He has even allowed my friends to deal with me harshly and leave me desolate and without human sympathy.” “My opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.” Job is obviously referring to the adversary at work through human instruments because he goes on to say “‘They’ strike my cheek in scorn and ‘they’ unite themselves against me” (v.10).
Satan watches very closely the individual in the furnace of trial; even “sharpening his eyes,” as one translation puts it, to watch the man fall.
Jeremiah cried, “I have heard many whispering, ‘Terror on every side!’ . . . All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, ‘Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him’“ (Jer. 20:10).
No faithful servant of God has ever yet escaped this aspect of the fiery trial. King David found that “all day long they twist my words; they are always plotting to harm me. They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps, eager to take my life.”
“God has turned me over to evil men and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.”
And on it goes .
If you’re interested you can download the whole study of Job.
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Job: The “White Night”
Isaiah Commentary (by David E. Thompson)