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like this,
“I should have been as though I had not been, carried from womb to
tomb.”
That is what he wanted. He wanted to go from the womb to the tomb. And
then he ends up the chapter with his fifth question. Why don’t You leave
me alone? Do you know what that amounts to? Get out of my life. That’s
what he is saying.
“Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may
have a little cheer before I go.”
Look at how hopeless this is – where he is going to go.

“And I shall not return to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
the land of utter gloom as darkness itself, of deep shadow without
order, and which shines as the darkness.”
That is what he looks for. Was he discouraged? Man, he was at the
bottom. Are You enjoying this, God? Have You made some mistake that I
am the one that is suffering down here? Why did You have former
compassion on me? Doesn’t a moral condition mean anything to You? It
makes no difference if I am righteous or wicked. God, why don’t You let
me alone and get out of my life? Zophar is listening to this, and he is
about to answer. Boy, watch out when he answers.
Those are the facts. You wonder why Job’s friends became so intense and
so urgent and gave such sharp reviews? This is Job. The cry of a
confused man whose experience goes in the opposite direction of his
theology. He believed one thing and believed it for years. “Though He
slay me, yet will I trust Him.” “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” And
now, listen to him. A Godly man. God looked down and said there is not a
man like him on the earth. Upright, pure, fearing God. A holy man of
God.

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