Today, I am reading and commenting on Job 22-28.

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Eliphaz starts today’s passage with a great insight: we provide no benefit to God.  God is all powerful which means that He needs nothing and has all that He wants.  Everything God has done was for the sake of His creation.  Unfortunately, he then proceeds to accuse Job of committing evil acts.  Eliphaz has no evidence that Job did any of things of which he accuses Job.  Job replies to Eliphaz by saying things many of us think from time to time.  We sometimes (maybe even often) that we wish God would set up a schedule of when He would hold court so that we could come before, either to plead our case or to level accusations against the wicked.  Job also rephrases something which Eliphaz had said.  Both of them stated that the wicked think that they will never be held to account for their wicked actions, that there is no one who can hold them accountable.

Bildad replies to Job by essentially saying that Job must be wicked, why else would he be suffering?  I love the sarcasm in Job’s response at the beginning of chapter 26.  Finally, I want to touch on what Job says in chapter 28.  There he speaks about how mankind is so able to search out and acquire various forms of wealth.  Yet, for all of that skill in finding and acquiring valuable goods, even those buried in remote mountains, mankind cannot find where wisdom lies.  Job goes on to point out that wisdom is so valuable that its worth cannot be measured in any of the measures we use for wealth.  There is no being or spirit which can answer to tell us where to find and obtain wisdom, except for God Almighty.  And God tells us that fear of the Lord is wisdom and turning away from evil brings us to understanding.

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