Wronged

Job 19:1-6 – Then Job replied: “How long will you torment me and crush me with words? Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me. If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone. 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.

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?

Job 2:3 – Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”

Job 1:12 – The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

Application:

• ·         Job, struggling with the enigma of his suffering, can only conclude that God is his enemy, though in fact He is his friend who delights in him. Job’s true enemy, of course, is Satan, the accuser.
• ·         Job imagines that God is angry with him, an innocent man, and that he takes delight in the wicked.
• ·         God cannot be stirred up to do things against His will.
• ·         In all the evil he effects among human beings or in nature, Satan is under God’s power.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV