Today, I am reading and commenting on Job 38-42.

When Elihu finishes his monologue God speaks to Job.  He begins by asking Job if he was there when the world was created and if he understands where light and darkness come from.   Job responded by recognizing that he was not worthy to speak with God and had no answer for the questions which God asked of him.  Job said that he would speak no more.  It would be tempting to look at many of these questions and think that, because science has found answers to many of them, we no longer need to respond as Job did.  However, that misses the point.  However, God was not done.  He asks Job about the mightiest of the creatures which God had created and if Job could capture either of them, or even imagine someone doing so.  In response, Job says that he despised himself and repents.  Despite earlier claiming that he had done no wrong, Job recognized that he had sinned by claiming that God was unjust and had done him wrong.  God forgave his sin and called on Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar to ask Job to pray for them.  Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar thought that they were more righteous than Job, yet God told them that they needed Job’s prayers.  Rather than look down on those who are suffering let us seek their prayers.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.