August 19, 2012 – Job 10 – 11
10:4-5 – This is a sarcastic tone towards God.  Job is giving God human qualities in answer to his friends.  The reason is that they are trying to fit God into human understanding.  They are limiting God in their thinking.  Job is saying, “does God have human eyes, does He live the days of a human?”  Job knows the answer is of course no.  But his point is why are they arguing their way when it limits what God can do or why God can do something.  God is so beyond our thought that we may never understand His motives.  We will have to wait and go through all of Job, but I am remembering God making a very similar argument to Job near the end of the book, so I wonder where that track comes from.
The next response to Job attacks Job’s supposed arrogance for thinking that he knows God’s workings or believes his righteousness despite all these wows.  This speaker questions his ability to know God so well as to question the “right way” of thinking, the way where if bad things happen you must deserve them.  He tells him to get rid of iniquities so that you can look to God in innocence.  They refuse to see that bad things can happen to the innocent.  We will see this brought to a climax with Christ on the Cross.