Dear Brother, i car every much about you so please listen to what the LORD said of Job AFTER Job's complaining.
That isn't regarding all terrible stuff he said about God. Don't defend these things:
Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Job 9:19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Job 9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Job 9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
More accusations against God.
Job 9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it,
He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
“God destroys the innocent along with the guilty.”
Job 9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly,
he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked:
he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
“When a good person dies a accidental death, God sits back and laughs during the trial.
And who else but God blindfolds the judges, then lets the wicked take over the earth?“
WOAH! Verse 23 is quite a statement by Job! That if a man should die accidentally while being punished, that God would laugh at the trial of an innocent man. This means that Job feels God is unjust and cruel!
Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Job 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows,
I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job 9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job 9:31
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
More accusations against God.
Job 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job 9:33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me,
and let not his fear terrify me:
Job 9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
More accusations against God.
Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Again, he repeats his statement in chapter 7. He will not be silent about how he feels about what he thinks God is doing to him.
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 10:3
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
“Why do you, God, take such delight in hating your children, and in blessing sinners?”
Job 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Job 10:5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
Job 10:6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
“Do you look at things the way we humans do? Is your life as short as ours? Is that why you are so quick to find fault with me?”
Ouch! Job is really digging himself a deep hole. Here he actually questions Gods right to judge man because God is not flesh and it’s implied that therefore God can’t understand what its like to live in the flesh. Yet, God can understand us, and could even before Christ was born in the flesh. God has the right to judge flesh man, and always has.
Job 10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job 10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about;
yet thou dost destroy me.
"You know I am innocent, but who can defend me against you? Will you now destroy someone you created?"
Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Job 10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Job 10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Job 10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Job 10:13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
Job 10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job 10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head.
I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
Job 10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job 10:17
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
“No matter how hard I try, you keep hunting me down like a powerful lion. You never stop accusing me; you become furious and attack over and over again.”
Job 10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Job 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been;
I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Job 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job 10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
“Surely I will go to hell, a land of darkness and despair, after I die”
