Moral of the Story: Forgive God and He Will Forgive You. Almost.

This will be a long blog post. I am hoping this will entirely cover everything from Chapter 11 through Chapter 37 in the Book of Job. It was a lot of information, so I might miss many things.

I want to start saying that Job was seriously affected by what God did to him. I respect and like in him that he is the only person who has been able to hate and disagree with God, and never change his opinion. Even though his friends tell him not to criticize and to stop saying all those things the whole time, he will never give away.

In this quote I am pretty sure that Job is saying the truth, and that he is completely capable of going onto God and proving his point. "23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 23:4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." I have no doubt that it would happen, although I am pretty sure if God doesn't want him to see Him, he won't. I am really eager to see an argument between them two.

This next quote is something I have also asked myself all the time. I don't understand how poor people or people going through a lot of misery can believe that God is there looking for them, and how the rich can do anything they want and nothing happens to them. "24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them." God doesn't seem to hear anyone calling Him, or do anything about it.

As I said before, I really like that Job says this: "27:5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me." It proves to me that people can really stand up to God, and I hope he will always maintain his point of view.

I liked also the line when Job said "27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; 27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver," meaning that even if he gives money to the rich, the poor will divide it all at the end. Anyways, I don't believe it will ever be true.

Another point that Job and his friends talked about was that even if they wanted to fight God, they don't have the wisdom and understanding to prove their point, and only God knows where that understanding can be found.

Then Job continues on fighting that he doesn't think he did anything wrong, and that if he really did, he gave God "permission" to punish him. He promised he hadn't done any of the things they had punished him for doing. He made a reference to the Ten Commandments, which I liked. "31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book." He is accepting that he would take it all on himself if he was truly guilty, but that he wasn't.

After all that he said, which in my opinion where mostly valid arguments, all his friends had to say was that because he had said so many mean things and things that God didn't agree with, he should be punished. "34:36 My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men." There Elihu, one of his friends, is saying that NOW it is correct to punish him because of all he has said.

Now, more than ever, I am seriously hoping to see God coming, because I really want to see what would happen when the two start an argument. Who will win? Probably God: he has an unfair disadvantage.