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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!
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

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