Job
19 – Job Answers Bildad
The friends that know us don’t need an explanation,
and our enemies won’t believe us anyway.
Job should have listened to what they said, then told
them good-bye and shown them the front gate of the city. But Job was determined
to vindicate himself.
His friends were not able to point out any error in
Job, and the implication is that he isn’t aware of any error in himself.
Job said that God was treating him harshly and there must
be an explanation for it. He further states that his friends have forsaken him,
his acquaintances are estranged from him, his friends have forgotten him, the
maids that lived in his house count him as a stranger, his servants will not
answer his call, and his wife is a stranger to him. Even the young children
have despised him. He is so thin that his bone clings to his skin, and “….I am
escaped with the skin of my teeth.” He asks his friends for pity.
The Devil, through his friends, has been able to bring
Job to the place where he is not humble but is still trying to vindicate himself
before God.
These friends have not broken him down completely. He
has a living, real faith in God. He knew he would be raised again. He knew that
in the flesh he would see God. He knew that even if the worms destroyed his
body after death, yet in his flesh he would see God. He believed in the
resurrection of the dead.
The bodies of the dead in Christ, will be put to
sleep, but the spirit will go to be with Christ immediately.
Despite all their accusations, Job has kept his faith.
He believes the Redeemer is coming and that he himself is numbered with the
redeemed.
Please read the chapter listed so that you can
understand God’s Word better.
J. Vernon McGee Commentary.
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