September 20, 2012 – Job 20

The response is what is in store for the wicked man.  It is pretty bleak, but I guess it should be.  But once again, as with the others, the focus is on what the world sees happening to this person.  The wicked man’s prosperity will be short, goods taken, riches swallowed up, etc.  This is how it has been seen from days of old.  Job is saying that you cannot judge by what you see.  Humans cannot know a man’s thoughts and relationship with God.  We can only see skin deep and so we judge based on that.  Job is saying that this is not seeing the way God sees.  29 – “This is the portion of the wicked man and the heritage appointed him by God”.  This is said while they are looking at Job and after he has just said that basically all these descriptions of what happens to the wicked has happened to him, but he is saying he’s not wicked.  Back and forth we go with the same type argument.