In Job 6 - 7, Job replies. There is real pain
in Job’s words. He speaks of his “grief” and “misery” (Job 6:2). There
is a real longing for God to answer his prayer. Sadly, his prayer has
become a cry of despair: “that God would finally be willing to crush me,
that He would reach out to cut me off” (Job 6:9). Even though he is in
great distress, Job retains sufficient clarity of thought to know that
his so-called ‘friends’ have got it wrong - “Please change your mind ...
Change your mind because I am still right about this! ...or is my mouth
unable to tell the difference between right and wrong?” (Job 6:29-30).
There is sadness here - “As a cloud fades away and disappears, so a
person goes into the grave and doesn’t come back again” (Job 7:9). Job
hasn’t broken through this sense of hopelessness to the triumphant
faith, expressed in his confession of confidence in God: “I know that my
Redeemer lives ...” (Job 19:25-26), a tremendous declaration of
Christ’s resurrection and our resurrection in Him. It’s so wonderful
that in a book, filled with so much suffering, there is this marvellous
glimpse of an eternal glory, in which all suffering will be banished
forever.
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