Job 10 Commentary
“Tell me what charges you have against me.” Saints may not have the audacity of Job to say this kind of prayer. Why should they invite trouble on themselves? Normally, the saint’s daily life is riddled with both known and unknown moments of unfaithfulness.
Why pray like Job and force the LORD to bring out a large book of sins against yourself?
However, large portions of Job’s prayer here are very familiar. The righteous have a hard time while the wicked smile their way to the bank!
Job reminds the LORD how He created Job out of clay. Is the LORD about to send Job back to clay? Fine, but should it end this way? Is this really part of what the LORD had planned for me? Job has many questions that many believers have asked.
Why was I born, anyway? For this?
The LORD will eventually answer Job towards the end of this book. For now, we have Job going through the gears of emotions. This journey through emotions and thoughts is an unending trip of ‘yes’ and ‘no’.
One moment you feel like you understand, but the next moment you feel as confused as before. It is a cycle of rejection and acceptance. One moment you feel like you have said a very good prayer worthy of an immediate acquittal, only to completely rubbish it moments later. Repentance follows. The process repeats itself endlessly. It is a journey of countless back-and-forth trips to nowhere. This is where the real pain is.
But Job has laid it before the LORD. This is key. We saw how King Saul destroyed himself by prostrating himself on the floor of the witch’s hut in search of answers. He had been in a moment of deep crisis. Saints should never do things like this. Bring it to the LORD in prayer. This is Job’s lesson for us all.
These are deep-lying questions of life that no mortal can answer. The scripture puts it this way: “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you”.
But, again, we shouldn’t lose sight of where we are coming from. Job once lived a good life under the care of the Almighty. To think of life and define it through the lens of “this” moment is to lose balance. The reader has the “before”, the “now”, and the “future” of Job all packaged in this book! Yes, we can draw conclusions from this balanced view of life.
And yes, the reader can also investigate the “before”, the “now”, and the “future” of the wicked and see that there is no substance to write home about!
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