Job 16:10-14
Job's Suffering Has Hollowed Him Out
9 God assails me and tears me in his anger
and gnashes his teeth at me;
my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
10 People open their mouths to jeer at me;
they strike my cheek in scorn
and unite together against me.
11 God has turned me over to the ungodly
and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
12 All was well with me, but he shattered me;
he seized me by the neck and crushed me.
He has made me his target;
13 his archers surround me.
Without pity, he pierces my kidneys
and spills my gall on the ground.
14 Again and again he bursts upon me;
he rushes at me like a warrior.
After one suffers for a long period of time, we get mentally fatigued, exhausted, tired, alone, hollowed out and empty...Job must have felt this way as he talks back and forth with his friends...He is at his wit's end...When we are at our wit's end, we can say many convoluted, exhausted things...We can say things when we feel terrible that do not make sense or seem reasonable...
Author Lee Strobel said that “God didn’t let Job suffer because He lacked LOVE, but because He did LOVE, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is Humanity’s Supreme Happiness...Job’s suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.”...