Job 9-10

Job 9
Job concedes that Bildad is right in saying that God will come to his defense still, but Job seems to backslide in his own mind and asks some questions that just really don't have any solid answers (at least in this time. At the first revelation of Christ, he is able to answer these questions):

"How can a man be in the right before God?"

"Who could argue their point against him?"

"Who could stand against his strength and power?"

Job tells us of God's might, his strength to move mountains, his ability to give and take away the light of the stars, to remove the ocean's waves, to use the most dreaded creatures on earth (Rahab, a monster of the sea). Job gets it! He understands who he is and who God is: "For though I were right, I could not answer; I would have to implore the mercy of my judge" (v15). To believe the truth about Christ, we have to know this, that God is everything and we are nothing. We require Christ! Without Christ we cannot stand before God. His mercy must be shown or else we perish before his judgment!

Job reminds us that God controls the weather (v17), and for Job, God has allowed Satan to inflict disaster upon him. Job continues to describe that though he is righteous, his righteousness does not stand up to God's, and though he is guiltless, he is guilty before God.

Job declares I am guiltless, yet I am bruised by God. In verse 24, he asks, "If not God, then who?"

It seems that Job comes to a realization that his life is short and that he does not want to spend it in anger (v25-27). Through v31, Job understands that he could do all sorts of physical things to cleanse himself, but God would still declare him guilty. In verse 33, he realizes that their is no arbitrator between him and God, no one to see both sides and plead both sides' cases to the opposing side (Praise the Lord that we do have such an arbitrator! namely Jesus Christ [Heb 4:14]).

Job 10
Job is bitter against his life, and he will speak plainly through his bitterness. He calls to God, backwardly telling God that he is wrong in rejecting the work of his hands (v3). Job says that this is what a mortal man would do, seek out for sin in Job, but God is neither mortal nor is blinded from Jobs actions (he knows all about Job, that he is a righteous man).

In verses 8-12, Job describes how God has created him, vividly. He tells God that his lovingkindness is there but to Job it is hidden within God. Job does no longer see this kindness, but he sees the anger that is unjustly burning against him (v17).

Out of the womb, Job has been created, and if for nothing else, I think Job is saying, he has been brought out for some purpose; for why would he not have been killed immediately at birth since that is what he desires now.

Seek God and contend with him to keep his promises, written in his word!