Eliphaz continued speaking and admonished Job to remember how great God is. He spoke as if he had no understanding of what Job experienced even though he had spent a week sitting with him. His comments seem to assume Job's plight was simply the result of not believing in God's great power to save him.
Then Job spoke. He described his agony as being heavier than the sand on the beach. His life was lifeless and he wished he were dead. He had no strength for hope. Even his friends disappointed him. They judged him without understanding him, even though Job had only spoken truth. Then he wondered why life was so hard. His days were filled with endless suffering, yet he did not die. He begged God not to forget him, as he felt that he would simply disappear. All he wanted was to be free of the agony of his body, he was tortured like an evil creature.
Job asked God what made Him so concerned about humans? Why does He test us from sunrise to sunset? Why does He watch us so closely? Why does He refuse to forgive?
Then Bildad spoke to Job. Bildad scolded Job for talking and saying nothing. He told Job that God made his children pay for their own sins. He asked Job why he didn't turn to God and start living right, since God would rescue him. Bildad told Job that people who turn from God have a hopeless future. If you turn from God you trust something as flimsy as a spider's web. Bildad assumed Job had sinned and refused to repent, that he had turned away from God, that he was getting what he had coming to him.
Tomorrow read Job 9-12:12
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