Job's Sixth Answer. Job 21

 

Job 21 – Job’s Sixth Answer

 

Job agrees with them that the wicked will be punished but insists that this does not apply to his case.

 

He is not taking his complaint to men; he is appealing to God. Job points out a fallacy in their argument. The wicked do not always suffer in this life; they may prosper. They are not always cut off; sometimes they attain old age, their property remains intact, and their children are able to inherit it. Like others, they go down to the grave but without catastrophe striking them beforehand.

 

We know certain family names that stand for money, and they have no reputation for godliness. We find them in politics and in high society. They don’t seem to suffer as other people suffer.

 

Job tells them he doesn’t belong in that class. He is not wicked. He says the wicked have no more problems than the average person. Death is no respecter of persons, and the time comes when death knocks at the door of the wicked. There comes a time of judgment.

 

God will permit the sinner to live it up down here if that’s what he wants to do. The goodness and the forbearance and the long-suffering of God should lead us to repentance.

 

“The wicked is reserved for the day of destruction.”

 

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.