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look at verse 13-25 in chapter twelve, and you will see Job’s view of God.
“With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and
understanding. Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He
imprisons a man, and there can be no release. Behold, He restrains the
waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the
earth. With Him are strength and sound wisdom, the misled and the
misleader belong to Him.”
And he goes on describing how tremendous God is. He forgot more about
God’s wisdom then Zophar ever knew. Job says, “You want some wisdom?
I will give you some”. Chapter 13, verse 5 “O that you would be
completely silent, and that it would become your wisdom.” Shut up!!!!
You want to be wise, then shut your mouth. You do not know anything,
Zophar. Coming up with all these bright ideas.
Job gets pretty hot in his response to Zophar, because Zophar is just
skimming the surface. He is quoting what he was taught in Sunday School,
and Job calls it in 13:12 “Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,
your defenses are defenses of clay.” You are just quoting some pious
platitudes you heard. This is very instructive. The mysteries of life.
Somebody has a problem. It is so easy to give them the answer, right? Trust
in the Lord! Look to Jesus! It is so easy to throw out the answers, and never
really have the answer from God to meet the answer of the heart. And that is
what Zophar was doing. He was just spouting off what he learned in
theological school. He had all the right answers and all the platitudes. And
Job said, “You have proverbs of ashes,” because you do not know what
you are talking about. Do you want to be wise, Zophar? Then I would shut
up for about twenty-five years until you learn something. Until you get dry
behind the ears, until you learn to change your diaper.
Zophar had dragged Job before God and said you are guilty of secret sins.
Now Job does the same thing to Zophar. In chapter 13 he drags Zophar
before God, and says, “How are you going to feel when you have to stand
before God and God accuses you of trying to defend Him?” He says, “You
do not have to defend God. If God has an issue with me, God will show me.
Let God defend God, Zophar. You do not have to do that”. I think verse 15
would be beautiful anywhere in the Bible, but it is marvelous as an answer to
Zophar.
“Though He slay me, I will hope in Him.
Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.”

He says I do not care what you guys accuse me of, I do not care what you
think about secret sins and that I am harboring some wickedness in my heart.

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