September 8, 2012 – Job 16

“I have heard this sort of thing many times”.  I just wrote about that in my last post, that all the arguments begin to sound the same. 

11-12 – It seems like Job might understand what happened.  He was in peace (his life before) but God gave him over (allowed Satan to test him) and now Satan has “seized [Job] by the neck and dashed [him] to pieces.  If that is the meaning of those lines, we see that at the end of the chapter, Job is still calling out to God.  We have to go back and look at what Satan wanted to happen.  He thought that if everything was taken from Job, he would turn away from God.  But we see that Job has not lost his trust in God and believes that God is still with him.