Job 1:8
Job was Blameless and Upright
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."
Job 10:8-9
God Created Job
8 "Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? 9 Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?"
Job 26:1-14
Job Understands the Power of God
1 Then Job replied:
2 “How you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
And what great insight you have displayed!
4 Who has helped you utter these words?
And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5 “The dead are in deep anguish,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 The realm of the dead is naked before God;
Destruction lies uncovered.
7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.
8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9 He covers the face of the full moon,
spreading his clouds over it.
10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
for a boundary between light and darkness.
11 The pillars of the heavens quake,
aghast at his rebuke.
12 By his power he churned up the sea;
by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13 By his breath the skies became fair;
his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
how faint the whisper we hear of him!
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
Job 19:25-26
Job Knew His Redeemer Lives
25 I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. 26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; 27 I myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
Job 42:1-6
Job Sees His Answer
1 Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”
How can we explain Job?...Job was a blameless and upright man who suffered greatly…And through his suffering, he had many questions about why he suffered for His Maker…
The world seems broken and is need of repair...Suffering is part of its brokenness...The question of suffering is why does our loving Maker allow us to suffer?...Sometimes the question about our suffering is why me?...The suffering question is maybe an outskirt or a fringe to a much bigger question or questions...So it may also be just the fringe of an infinite number of questions about the whole universe and creation -to where one question leads to another question, which leads the the next question, which leads to the next, which needs still another answer, and leads to still another question...
Or is there something else in explaining things other than by words and with words?...Is there more knowledge found in Something Else?...Can words not clearly explain all things?...Can words obscure knowledge?...
And in the end, God did not a verbal answer on Job’s personal questions about suffering…God comes out of a storm, and instead of answering Job about his suffering, He asks Job questions, many questions about many things, many about creation, and that somehow is enough for Job…Questions Job could not answer...In God's questions and in God's Presence, Job finds his answer to suffering...
Job said that God had made him from clay and to dust he would return one day…It was St. Augustine who said, "You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in You."…Job knew that God was his Creator…He knew that God is worthy of praise, but his suffering took something out of him, as suffering does…Job knew God helps the powerless...And Job still knew the power of God and tells us that even the smallest and the fringe of God's ways are great, and sometimes only in a small whisper do we hear Him!... And who can understand the thunder of His power?…God's wisdom is beyond reckoning...Job knew God is Infinite in power and wisdom, as we struggle with our own immortality and limited knowledge…Our years on earth are nothing when compared to One who is Infinite in years…Job got to see in his suffering that God was full of glory and worthy of praise, while the nature of man with our inconsistencies and being drawn to sin, is in need of a Redeemer…And Job saw this need for a Redeemer…And somehow he knew his Redeemer lives…And would make it to earth one day...Perhaps the only answer to suffering on earth, comes from the One above...There is this One who can be described as Complete Understanding...He is the answer...And He did send us a Redeemer, who would capture our inconsistencies and our sins and make them whole...Job knew his rest would come, when he rested in Thee...