Job 19:6,17-21 – If indeed you would exalt
yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, then
know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me…My breath is offensive to my wife;
I am loathsome to my own family. Even the little boys scorn me;
when I appear, they ridicule me. All my intimate friends detest me;
those I love have turned against me.
I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,
for the hand of God has struck me.
Exodus
20:12 – “Honor your father and your
mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Job
10:3 – Does it
please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands,
while you smile on the plans of the wicked?
Application:
- · Honoring those in authority is essential for social stability.
- · The sickroom is not the place to argue theology; in times of severe suffering, people may say things that require a response of love and understanding.
- · The wicked may get themselves into trouble, as Bildad had pointed out, but Job here attributes his suffering to God.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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