Prove Their Innocence

Job 9:1-2,17,33-34 – Then Job replied: “Indeed, I know that this is true. But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?...He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason…If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.

Job 1:1 – In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

Job 10:1,3 – “I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul…Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?

Application:

• ·         “Blameless and upright” means spiritually and morally upright.
• ·         Job does not know that God has allowed Satan to crush him for a high purpose.
• ·         God is so immense that Job feels he needs someone who can help him, someone who can argue his case in court.
• ·         Because Job is so bitter, his mind has conjured up a false picture of God.
• ·         Job himself will eventually repent, and God will forgive.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV