“Yet if you devote your heart to him
and stretch
out your hands to him,
if you put away the sin that is in your hand
and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;
you will stand firm and without fear. Job 11:13-14
if you put away the sin that is in your hand
and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;
you will stand firm and without fear. Job 11:13-14
Job’s friends came to comfort Job after he lost his
family, business and house, but they ended up discomforting Job, by asking many
questions and suspecting him to be sinful.
They believed that only the evil received this kind of punishment in
life and worked Job to squeeze out a confession.
Job held firm to his innocence. His friends could not believe Job was a righteous
person. Yet, even God speaking to Satan
called Job a righteous man. His friends called
him arrogant for believing in his own innocence.
The friends ended up exposing their own arrogance in
accusing Job. Their belief system of bad
things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people completely
disregarded the will of God to do whatever He wants to do. They felt God's payback system was the only
right way.
God ended up chastising the friends and applauding Job’s
righteousness, proving that bad things can happen to good people if God allows
it. And, by blessing Job, that good
things happen to good people because God allows it.