Job 9:2-3 - "how can a man be in the right before God?
"If one wished to dispute with Him, He could not answer Him once in a
thousand times."
Job 9:32 - "For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him."
Twice in this chapter Job says that he would not be able to answer God. And this is certainly true. We know that while God didn't ask Job a thousand questions, He did ask him quite a few, and Job never answered one of them. The questions that God asked Job were not meant to be answered. They were meant to change Jobs attitude. In Job 31:35 Job says - "Oh, that the Almighty would answer me." God did answer Job, but He did it in a way that he did not expect. Job obviously knew that he could not answer God, but he wanted God to answer him. And God did answer him, with questions. Job saw himself as righteous before God, (and as a matter of fact he was) and he was wondering why all this stuff was happening to him.
Of course, we know why it all happened. It's conveniently written in a book for us. But Job didn't know. And as far as we know he never found out why. God didn't tell Job why all of this was happening, but something that just occurred to me is that while Job didn't get an answer, he had an encounter with God. And that encounter changed his whole perspective. After he had an encounter with God he didn't need an answer.
After Job had this encounter with God he said to Him, "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know." This is similar to what the psalmist said in Psalm 139:6. Job went on to say "Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me. I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You."
Job experienced God in a way that he never had before. Sitting in the dust by the road, having lost everything, after being ridiculed by his friends, and having done nothing wrong to deserve it, Job saw God in a whole new light.
Job 9:32 - "For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him."
Twice in this chapter Job says that he would not be able to answer God. And this is certainly true. We know that while God didn't ask Job a thousand questions, He did ask him quite a few, and Job never answered one of them. The questions that God asked Job were not meant to be answered. They were meant to change Jobs attitude. In Job 31:35 Job says - "Oh, that the Almighty would answer me." God did answer Job, but He did it in a way that he did not expect. Job obviously knew that he could not answer God, but he wanted God to answer him. And God did answer him, with questions. Job saw himself as righteous before God, (and as a matter of fact he was) and he was wondering why all this stuff was happening to him.
Of course, we know why it all happened. It's conveniently written in a book for us. But Job didn't know. And as far as we know he never found out why. God didn't tell Job why all of this was happening, but something that just occurred to me is that while Job didn't get an answer, he had an encounter with God. And that encounter changed his whole perspective. After he had an encounter with God he didn't need an answer.
After Job had this encounter with God he said to Him, "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know." This is similar to what the psalmist said in Psalm 139:6. Job went on to say "Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me. I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You."
Job experienced God in a way that he never had before. Sitting in the dust by the road, having lost everything, after being ridiculed by his friends, and having done nothing wrong to deserve it, Job saw God in a whole new light.
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