What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Job declares he possesses the same knowledge as his friends and yields to them in nothing in understanding. This declaration belongs to his answer to their argument and their appeal to God. It forms part of his reply to their unceasing accusations, both those they uttered openly and those they conveyed by implication.
Their claims rested on their own wisdom and observation, whereas he knew his own integrity and could not comprehend the reason for his suffering. In its larger setting it belongs to the portion of Job that treats the great problems of overruling providence and of sin and suffering, in which God is disciplining Job and leading him through the fire of affliction while his three friends charge him with sin and insist his sufferings come because of that sin, just as people still misjudge one another. It stands within Job 11-14, the portion for Thursday June 19 in the week ending June 21, 1913, which completes Esther and covers nineteen chapters of Job together with Psalm 45.
Job declares he possesses the same knowledge as his friends and yields to them in nothing in understanding. This declaration belongs to his answer to their argument and their appeal to God. It forms part of his reply to their unceasing accusations, both those they uttered openly and those they conveyed by implication.
Their claims rested on their own wisdom and observation, whereas he knew his own integrity and could not comprehend the reason for his suffering. In its larger setting it belongs to the portion of Job that treats the great problems of overruling providence and of sin and suffering, in which God is disciplining Job and leading him through the fire of affliction while his three friends charge him with sin and insist his sufferings come because of that sin, just as people still misjudge one another. It stands within Job 11-14, the portion for Thursday June 19 in the week ending June 21, 1913, which completes Esther and covers nineteen chapters of Job together with Psalm 45.