Day 149 – March 14, 2024: Job 22-27

In Job 22 his friend is very specific in what he states Job has failed to do. It all kinda follows what the king says in Matthew 25. You failed to reach out in concern to the widow. You abandoned the orphan. You didn’t provide food to the hungry or material relief to the poor. This listing of non-actions should be a concern to the reader. It seems as if his friend is accusing him very specifically for things that he did not do. His friend would know him and would stand in a position to be able to accuse him. But again, the concept is that because he did not do any of these things he falls within the company of the wicked and God naturally will punish the wicked. As a result you are being punished right now in your current state of affairs because you did not do all those things.

We do not know if Job did these things or not. He certainly says that he will die before he confesses to things that he feels like he did not commit, and probably these types of actions fall into that category. He refuses to admit to the guilt that he does not have. Now, there is a part of me that makes me think that Job thinks more highly of himself than he ought to. We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God. His friends make him out to be inherently sinful, as if God created him that way. No, not one of us is inherently sinful, God has made us in His image. But we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Maybe that is enough to admit. It may not make a difference in the current state of affairs for Job, but a little humility might help.