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the same kind of thing. Look at verse 10,

“Did You not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese.”
Now that’s graphic! “And knit me together with bones and sinews.”
Chapter 13: 24 - 28, the same thing
“Why do You hide Your face and consider me Your enemy?”
This is an amazing thing. Look at his view of God. It sure has changed.
“The Lord has given and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the
name of the Lord.” “Though He slay me, yet shall I trust Him” .

Now he says God is my enemy. He set me up as his target. He is shooting
at me without a cause. No reason. Look at chapter 19, verse 6
“Know then that God has wronged me and has closed His net
around me.”
Is he blaming God? Chapter 30, verse 21
“You have become cruel to me; with the might of Your hand You
persecute me.”
Do you see my point? Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar had one theme they
kept pushing. You are suffering because you are wicked. Job says, no, I
am suffering because God is unjust, because God is unfair. God wanted
someone to pick on, and He chose me. God wanted a target, and He found
one in me. So these men were wrong, but so was Job. I will not develop it
now, but let me just say this. Those two errors have not disappeared in the
last six thousand years. Have you ever heard anyone say something like
this? I am suffering because God is punishing me for something in my
past. Did you ever hear anything like that? You have already been
punished for every sin in the Person of Jesus Christ your substitute. You
will never be punished again……. Ever! No matter what, you can’t be
punished again or God would be collecting for the same debt twice, and
that would make Him dishonest. Jesus took the wrath of God and was
punished, our mistakes now enter the laws of sowing and reaping and are
used for correction and maturation.

People still say “God is unfair”. Well, they might not come right out and
say He’s unfair. He set me up as His target, and He is shooting at me. Did
you ever hear expressions like these? Bad luck. Adverse circumstances.
Misfortune. Ill fate. Everything has befallen me. You see, the whole idea
is that there is no wisdom, there is no plan and there is no love. There is
no reason behind what is going on in my life. There is no real God who
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