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Job 30:
Job
laments that even youths of lower status who where considered insignificant now
use him as a byword. Now they disrespect him as insignificant because God
has humbled him. He claims that God has turned him to dust and ashes, and
his cry for help to God remains unanswered. He seems to believe God
deceived him because he claims despite all the good he had done for the needy,
God gave him evil in return; he wanted light, but God have him darkness; and now
his skin falls from him because of the sores. Keep in mind that not once
did Job blame Satan for his loss, but God only. This is because he
believes that God is in control of all things and Satan can never succeed
without God's approval.
Job 31:
Job
wonders if God does not see his blamelessness. He even made a covenant not
to look at women. He demanded that God should judge him fairly if he had
walked in deceit and slept with another's wife. If so, let him and his
wife labor for another. He also wants God to say if he ever eat his food
alone, oppressed the poor, disappointed the widows, ignored the fatherless, or
if he has rejoiced in the fall of his enemies. If so, he accepts the
punishment.
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Job 32:
Elihu, fourth friend of Job,
waited patiently to speak because the others were older than he was. After
listening to all of them, he was angry at Job for claiming to be blameless
rather than God, as well as Job's three friends for not responding to Job's
self-righteousness. He claimed that it is the breadth of God that gives
understanding and not necessary old age. He insists that he will speak
since wisdom has failed the older ones. |
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