Job 40:6-9 (ESV Strong's)
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
“Dress for action like a man;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Have you an arm like God,
and can you thunder with a voice like his?
Tag: Are We Right and God Wrong?
Job, throughout the book of his life, has claimed his innocence before God. His three friends believe in “retribution theology” - God punishes us because we sin against Him; that is the reason for evil and suffering in this world. Yet, in the above verses (and throughout these last chapters) God challenges Job (and his three friends) about their beliefs. God NEVER (throughout the entire book) answers Job’s main question: Why to the righteous suffer? God simply tells Job and his friends what is NOT an answer to the question. God does not simply allow suffering to come into the lives of ONLY those who are evil. It is plain from the book that God is demonstrating that He can and does allow suffering on the righteous. That is the ONLY conclusions you can draw from the book. In that thought, God has perfect justice and righteous to allow those who are righteous on this earth to suffer and experience the fallout of evil in this world. God, remarkably, gives illustrations about this from the created world around Job. What God is saying is that, “I can do what I want with MY creation and creatures ... and I DO!!” God allows the wicked to run free (for now) and He allows evil to afflict the righteous and He is perfectly just in allowing that to happen. That is the message of the book. The quicker we get to understanding and believing that the quicker we can get to the end of the book (where Job is double blessed ... yet, with the remaining scars of the preceding 41 chapters). God has the right to do what He wants with His creation and we must relax and rest in that thought. That is a blessed life!!!
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