Does God Really “Get Us?” - Job 8-10

Job 10:4-7 (ESV)

Have you eyes of flesh?

Do you see as man sees?

Are your days as the days of man,

or your years as a man’s years,

that you seek out my iniquity

and search for my sin,

although you know that I am not guilty,

and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

Job is in great pain and suffering.  As such he is free with his tongue.  His mind is on survival not submission.   He dares to open his mouth in these moments, as we all would.  When in these moments of despair, do we really want to tell God what is on our mind?   Of course, He is God, so He knows what is on our mind.  Job’s friends have told him to quit justifying himself and confess his sins.  But Job knows that he is innocent.   Since we read chapters one and two, we know he is innocent.  Yet, in pain we often open our mounts and insert our feet.   In the above lines we read Job’s complaint about God.  He in essence is asking, “God, do you even know what it is like to be a human being?”    Job is accusing God of:

1. Not having the eyes of flesh - seeing the world like Job sees it. 

2. Being limited in life like humans - there is a date for all of us and God does not experience that. 

3. God has too much time on His hands and just looks for the iniquity and sin in our lives - God does not know the pressure of sin on us. 

4. Man is doomed since we have sin in our lives and no one can save us - God does not walk around with that pressure. 

Of course, Job is not technically wrong in these things.   God is God and man is man.   But this is why God sent His Son.  Job does not know, this but we later learn:

John 1:14 (ESV)

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Hebrews 4:14-16 (ESV)

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Jesus came to respond to Job’s compliant.  Job was suffering and confronted God.  God responds by sending His Son to answer all of Job’s complaints.    We have a God who knows exactly what we suffer with.  By His grace He saves us through it.