You forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians: The same devastating frustration that led Job to wish he were dead, now leads him in bitter response to his friends’ accusations. As much as anything, it was their insistence that prompted Job to demand an answer (and vindication with it) from God.Ĭ. We sense the deep frustration in Job that prompted this plea, “ I desire to reason with God.” It was bad enough when he could make no sense of his situation, but it was worse when his friends persistently insisted on their own wrong answer to Job’s crisis. God’s response to Job’s demand (and Job’s response to God’s response) makes up the last few chapters of the book. I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God: Job here developed a theme that would end with a virtual demand that God make sense of his suffering.

To them - especially perhaps to Zophar - the situation seemed so simple therefore, Job must be somewhat ignorant to see what they believed was so easy to see.ī. What you know, I also know: Job here complained against the claim of superior knowledge on the part of his friends. Will it be well when He searches you out?Ī. ( Job 13:1-12) Job’s strong rebuke to his friends.

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