Job Chapter 10
Please read: Job 10 –
One might be tempted to think that they could read the book of Job to gain an understanding of why mankind often experiences great suffering. But this is not the case. We know that Job was an upright man one who feared God and did what was right in the eyes of God. When Job did sin, he immediately confessed it before God. The book of Job is therefore about undeserved suffering and trials of a man who belongs to God.
We must keep reading to discover what it is that God wants us to learn in reading the true account of Job. It is easy to get caught up in our human emotions and to empathize with Job, but God has so much He wants us to learn from all of the Bible and His plan for humanity.
Let's Reflect
1. Job’s first question in this chapter is a question of why God seems content to bring all this calamity upon him. He wonders why God is condemning him. And he asks God that question that often arises in a believer’s mind. He asks God if He finds it good to despise the one He created (a God follower) and instead favor whom?
2. Secondly, he asks if God’s eyes are somehow flawed. He knows that human eyes are often flawed and see things incorrectly. He would find it horrifying if God, who can look into the heart of man and see good and evil, if His eyes were flawed. Job knows that he is not guilty of sin. It is not that Job had never sinned, but he knows that he has confessed his sins and God has forgiven Him. He knows his question is ridiculous, but the question asked would mean that if God’s eyes were flawed then He would not be a just God. This makes it a dangerous question to ask. Yet according to verse 6 he feels that God is purposefully looking into his heart and searching for what?
3. In verses 8-17 Job speaks about the beautiful way God had created him. He does so with poetic examples. The human body is truly an amazing creation. But Job questions why God would create him so lovingly only to work to destroy him now. What does Job say God will do to him in verse 9?
4. The fourth question Job asks is why God does not just end Job’s life. He reverts back to the same thought he had earlier that it would have been better had he never been born. Job is questioning his purpose on the earth. In verse 19 what is he describing?
5. Job is asking to be left alone. He feels that the heavy hand of God is upon him. He describes God’s heavy hand back in verse 17 as what?
6. Job is struggling to understand the invisible sovereignty of God and what he feels is the injustice that God is exacting upon his life. As I mentioned earlier, we must keep reading to see what Job learns through all of it. Have you ever questioned God thinking that He was acting unfairly in your life? I certainly have. And yet through that difficult time I drew more closer to God than ever before, and I would not change that season of my life for anything.
