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Job 13:1–12, “Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.”
Job’s friends were enjoying the fact that he was suffering while they weren’t. He was a highly respected man who had suddenly come to a serious health crisis. They were enjoying this fact and blaming him for his problems. On the other hand, Job knew that he was innocent of the sins of which they accused him. Job told his friends that he was not inferior to them even though they were making clear that they thought he was. They were just telling lies to justify their own position. We all tend to try and blame someone else when we have done the wrong thing. Even though I know that I am in the wrong, I feel it’s okay if the other person is doing something that I define as wrong. However, this is not the case. God will never ask one person to justify another person’s behaviour, each person is only responsible for their own behaviour. (see Jer 31: 29, 30) Job asked his friends how they would feel if they had to stand before the Lord.
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