Job 11-12

Job 11
Zophar, one of Job's friends answers Job's monologue from chapters nine and ten. He basically says that Job talks too much and that someone should rebuke Job for the Lord (v2-3). Zophar tells Job that he must quit hiding his sin before the Lord (but we know from chapter one that Job is not walking in sin). Zophar states that God is unfathomable that Job cannot know everything of God. He even goes as far to call Job an idiot (v12).

Zophar urges Job to put whatever sin is in him far from him. In verse 20, Zophar calls job wicked and in the previous verses he tells Job of all the good things that God would do for him if only he would depart from sin.

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Job sarcastically says, "If you die, so wisdom will die with you!" He stands for what he knows saying that he also has intelligence and reiterates that he is just and righteous before God (v3-4). Job says that even the animals all around him know that God has caused this calamity to come upon him. Job tells of the power of God in all aspects of life: God can tear down and imprison; He can hold back the rain and release it at his word; All people good and bad belong to him; He humbles the wise; He allows kings freedom and he binds their hands; He reveals truth, light in the darkness; He enlarges nations and destroys them. Job says their is no light for these people.

However, we have the word of God, sharper than any two-edged sword and able to discern the intentions of the heart (Hebrews 4:12). It is the light that we are able to walk by (Psalm 119:105; 1 John 1:6-7); and we do grope for it, though it is quite near (Acts 17:27).