Scripture Thought (What I Learned):
Chapter 17: The body returns to dust
Job
directs a complaint both towards earth and towards heaven. Job continued his
same sense of defeat and brokenness as described in the previous chapter.
“Are
there not mockets with me?” (Job 17:2) Instead of getting support from
his friends, they tear him down and tell him that everything that has happened
to him, is because of his own sin.
Job
felt that not only were his friends against him, but that heaven was against
him. Here he pleads for an agreement of peace between himself and
heaven.
One day
the body returns to dust, job shows his lack of hope.
Chapter 18: The wicked know not God
Bildad continued to trade
insults with Job. They accused each other of being dense and stupid as beasts.
Bildad felt that Job wanted to
overturn unchangeable laws of life; mainly the laws of cause and effect that
tell us Job has caused his own crisis by his sin and refusal to
repent.
Bildad
wanted to teach Job about the life and fate of the wicked, and in doing so he
hoped that Job would get the idea that he was among the wicked that Bildad
described. The wicked man was someone weak in his steps, unable or unwilling to
continue the journey of life. He felt this accurately described Job and set him
among the wicked men. Bildad takes previous statements of Job and turns them
back upon him. Job spoke in his previous speech about how he felt attacked and
assaulted by God on every side (Job 16:9-14). Bildad regarded this as proof of
Job’s wickedness.
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