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20: “If his loins have not thanked me, and if he has not been
warmed with the fleece of my sheep.”
21: “If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan.”
24: “If I have put
my confidence in gold.”
25: “If I have gloated because my wealth was great.”
26: “If I have looked at the sun when it shone.”
29: “Have I rejoiced at the extinction of my enemy, Or exulted when
evil befell him?”
30: “I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life in a
curse.”
And look at verses 35-37. Let me give you a summary statement of these
verses. Job looked up into the face of God and before these three
witnesses he says “all my life I have behaved like a prince, in adversity
and in prosperity.

“Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature; Let the
Almighty answer me! And the indictment which my Adversary has
written. Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, I would bind it to
myself like a crown. I would declare to Him the number of my steps:
Like a prince I would approach Him”

He said, even if God came up to me, I would walk up to Him like a
prince, and I would tell Him how righteous I am. Marvelous, huh? And so
Job disagrees with his adversaries and insists that he has done no wrong.
That is how he refutes their philosophy. And so he says it is not logical
what you are saying. Whether or not it is the revelation of God, I am not
sure, God is not even talking to me these days. But, he says, it is not
logical because it is not what I have observed and it is not true in my own
life.

He did not know any more than they did. They were wrong; they were
very wrong. They were wrong about God. They were wrong about God’s
dealings with Job. They were wrong in their own methods of talking to
Job. They were wrong about the wicked, and they were wrong about Job.
But notice, their wrong, did not make him right. Job was just as wrong as
they were. Sometimes we think someone else is wrong, so I must be right.
No, you might be wrong too!
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