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Here was Job’s error. They said only the wicked suffer. Job said that is
not the explanation. I have the explanation. God is unfair. That was Job’s
explanation. Job ended by blaming God. Chapter 1, verse 21 and 22
“The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the
name of the LORD. Through all this Job did not sin nor did he
blame God.”
He did not blame God at the start. Satan tried circumstances to force Job
to curse God. It didn’t work. Satan tried Job’s wife to jeer him into
cursing God. No dice. Satan tried these miserable comforters to argue Job
into cursing God. That did not work either. But he came very close to
cursing God, by blaming God. It doesn’t take much to go from blaming
God to cursing God. Chapter 4, verse 6: from Job’s lips
“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison my
spirit drinks; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.”

That is not really blaming God. That is acknowledging that God is the
source of his suffering, but that is not blaming God. Chapter 7, verse 20
“Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why
have You set me as Your target, so that I am a burden to myself?”
Just think of this now. He is talking to God.
“Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why
are you setting me as Your target?”
He is still not blaming God, but he is getting closer. 9:13,

“God will not turn back His anger; Beneath Him crouch the helpers
of Rahab. How then can I answer Him, and choose my words before
Him? For though I were right, I could not answer; I would have to
implore the mercy of my judge. If I called and He answered me, I
could not believe that He was listening to my voice. For He bruises
me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause. He will
not allow me to get my breath.”
He is getting closer to blaming God. “He multiplies my wounds without
cause.” He has no reason to do this. Verse 24 of the same chapter,
“The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces
of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?”

If I cannot blame God, then who is doing this to me? Chapter 10: 8-10,
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