Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job appeals to God's knowledge that he is not wicked, holding fast to his integrity in the midst of affliction. He acknowledges that there is no one able to deliver out of God's hand, recognizing himself to be wholly under divine power. He remains perplexed and unable to understand God's dealings with him, judging partly from the same standpoint as his friends, yet he does not charge God foolishly.
His afflictions are not proof of sin, though his friends wrongly insist that his pain proves he has sinned. From their own wisdom and observation, having never known a thoroughly good man to be so afflicted, they held that affliction proved God's displeasure. His suffering is discipline through which he is being trained, raising the problem of sin and affliction that the book portrays.
God saw the end from the beginning and was working through Job's suffering what would glorify Himself forever after. That work was also to give comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones. It was to prove a blessing to Job himself.
Job appeals to God's knowledge that he is not wicked, holding fast to his integrity in the midst of affliction. He acknowledges that there is no one able to deliver out of God's hand, recognizing himself to be wholly under divine power. He remains perplexed and unable to understand God's dealings with him, judging partly from the same standpoint as his friends, yet he does not charge God foolishly.
His afflictions are not proof of sin, though his friends wrongly insist that his pain proves he has sinned. From their own wisdom and observation, having never known a thoroughly good man to be so afflicted, they held that affliction proved God's displeasure. His suffering is discipline through which he is being trained, raising the problem of sin and affliction that the book portrays.
God saw the end from the beginning and was working through Job's suffering what would glorify Himself forever after. That work was also to give comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones. It was to prove a blessing to Job himself.