Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
The question is whether God sees with the limited eyes of flesh and whether He judges as human beings judge. The word rendered man means a mortal being. Mortality therefore belongs to the whole person.
The book belongs with the treatment of the problems of God's providence, sin, and suffering. In its setting Job's afflictions are no proof that he has sinned, and rather than accepting the wrong insistence of his friends that suffering proves guilt, he appeals to God. His affliction is part of God's discipline.
He speaks in perplexity because he knows his own integrity and yet is greatly afflicted, so that in asking whether God sees as man sees he partly judges God's dealings from the human standpoint of wisdom and observation, but he does not charge God foolishly. God sees the end from the beginning and is working through his experience to glorify Himself forever, to give comfort and hope to thousands of sufferers, and to prove a blessing to Job.
The question is whether God sees with the limited eyes of flesh and whether He judges as human beings judge. The word rendered man means a mortal being. Mortality therefore belongs to the whole person.
The book belongs with the treatment of the problems of God's providence, sin, and suffering. In its setting Job's afflictions are no proof that he has sinned, and rather than accepting the wrong insistence of his friends that suffering proves guilt, he appeals to God. His affliction is part of God's discipline.
He speaks in perplexity because he knows his own integrity and yet is greatly afflicted, so that in asking whether God sees as man sees he partly judges God's dealings from the human standpoint of wisdom and observation, but he does not charge God foolishly. God sees the end from the beginning and is working through his experience to glorify Himself forever, to give comfort and hope to thousands of sufferers, and to prove a blessing to Job.