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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Today we wrapped up the story of Job. For several chapters, we've been reading about how Job wants to have a conversation with God, and yesterday God gave Job a lengthy response. Today we get to see Job's very brief reply, where he basically just says, I think I'm going to keep my mouth shut.
So Job is humbled and doesn't want to speak. But God has asked Job to answer him, and he didn't. So God pushes a little more. In chapter 40, verse 8, God says, Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right? How often do we get so frustrated by our circumstances that we carry a subtle undercurrent of belief that God is cruel for letting that thing happen to us?
If we really boil it down, that's the same thing as calling God a bad, unjust God. It's basically the belief that I would make a better God, because if I were God, I would never have done that, and He's wrong and unjust for choosing to do things that way. God points out Job's heart attitude that only became evident through his suffering. In 41.11, God also points out Job's entitlement.
Job glorifies God, he makes sacrifices, he honors God with his life and his actions, but it seems like maybe he values his own righteous acts just a little too highly, perhaps believing that they put God in his debt. The sins of pride and entitlement are disgusting, even when they are attached to our so-called good deeds. And God is kind to purge those things from His kids.
In chapter 42, Job repents. Your version of the Bible may have shown him saying, "'I despise myself.'" The Hebrew word used for despise here, which I won't try to pronounce because it actually sounds like a curse word, is used elsewhere to mean to withdraw or to reject. Like, I withdraw from myself. The tone it carries is more about humility than shame. There's a huge difference.
Shame feels like an accusation about who you are as a person, someone who's undeserving of love. Whereas humility is rightly viewing who you are as a person who is loved despite being undeserving. Humility is the narrow zone where you're not building yourself up or beating yourself up because you realize it's not about you.
It's immediately clear that Job is humbled by reflecting on all the things God points out to him. After Job repents, God finally addresses Job's friends. In fact, he rebukes them. So we finally get an official confirmation on how wrong these guys are. We already knew it from what God said in the first chapter, but it's good to hear God say it to them.
I really wish Elihu had been here for this part of the conversation, but most of the commentaries I read suggest he wasn't there, which could potentially be why God only rebuked the original three friends. We can only hope God had a word with him one-on-one at some point. In 42 verse 8, God says that those three friends haven't spoken of him what is right.
We've been talking all along about how a lot of what they say about God is true, but not all of it, obviously. Do you remember how they kept saying they were delivering the very words of God to Job, and how they were visited by a spirit that told them these things? It takes me all the way back to the first chapter of this book, where God is addressing the sons of God.
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