Job 42:1-7
Epilogue of Job
1 Then Job replied to the LORD:
2 "I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel 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.
7 After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD With All Your Heart
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Sometimes things happen in life that we just can't explain...We try and we think about these things, but we just sometimes get to the bottom of some the things that happen to us...And as in Job's case these things that happen are not good that we can't understand...I am not sure we look as deep to the good things that happen to us, as we do the bad things (and maybe we ought to look more and longer and harder when the good things do happen in our lives)...I think it is easier to question God, when the bad happens to us, rather than questioning Him, when the good comes around...The troubles and despairs, to me, seem harder to understand (than the good things-at least they are for me), as they unfold...Maybe this is because we don't try as hard to understand the good things in our lives...I sometimes even ask God, where He is in my hard times...
Job, and his friends, looked and talked about the tragic things that had happened to Job...All of them wondered why these things had happened to him...What had he done, to deserve this much suffering?...All of His friends in their dialogue and detail give there reasons to -why had Job lost his family, his friends, his wealth, and then his health...Job suffered greatly through these times and he and his friends were looking for understanding of all these tragic losses...We are given many pages of dialogue of Job and his friends in there opinions of what had happened to Job...And the friends were there with Job and this is good, just as fellowship is very good...But the three friends could not find the right answers or spoken the truth about God, according to the LORD Himself...
The understanding did come, after Job had greatly grieved and suffered, and the understanding comes through the Presence of God...There are certain things in life we will not understand...So we must trust in the LORD with all of our hearts and lean not on our own understanding; in all our ways, we should submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight...