#648 The Blind Apologists

“Behold, my eye has seen all this,

my ear has heard and understood it.

2 What you know, I also know;

I am not inferior to you.

3 But I would speak to the Almighty,

and I desire to argue my case with God.

4 As for you, you whitewash with lies;

worthless physicians are you all.

5 Oh that you would keep silent,

and it would be your wisdom!

6 Hear now my argument

and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7 Will you speak falsely for God

and speak deceitfully for him?

8 Will you show partiality toward him?

Will you plead the case for God?

9 Will it be well with you when he searches you out?

Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

10 He will surely rebuke you

if in secret you show partiality.

11 Will not his majesty terrify you,

and the dread of him fall upon you?

12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;

your defenses are defenses of clay.

13 “Let me have silence, and I will speak,

and let come on me what may.

14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth

and put my life in my hand?

15 Though he slay me, I will hope in him;[a]

yet I will argue my ways to his face.

16 This will be my salvation,

that the godless shall not come before him.

17 Keep listening to my words,

and let my declaration be in your ears.

18 Behold, I have prepared my case;

I know that I shall be in the right.

19 Who is there who will contend with me?

For then I would be silent and die.

20 Only grant me two things,

then I will not hide myself from your face:

21 withdraw your hand far from me,

and let not dread of you terrify me.

22 Then call, and I will answer;

or let me speak, and you reply to me.

23 How many are my iniquities and my sins?

Make me know my transgression and my sin.

24 Why do you hide your face

and count me as your enemy?

25 Will you frighten a driven leaf

and pursue dry chaff?

26 For you write bitter things against me

and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

27 You put my feet in the stocks

and watch all my paths;

you set a limit for[b] the soles of my feet.

28 Man[c] wastes away like a rotten thing,

like a garment that is moth-eaten. Job 13 ESV

I know of the things you are saying, your doctrines, your dogmas, but they are incomplete. You give my mouth and the premise of this a coating of lies, it is the painting of a scene that mocks the God you would invoke. I would take my case before Him, because none of you can hear this accurately, you cannot believe the truth while you caress the lie. Job is persistent in defending what he knows to be true of his own character, and then it seems they would cut him off, but "let me finish." This is good stuff, it is Davidic and Messianic, starting in verse 13, he will continue to speak, he will not take his own life, and though God slays him, his hope will be in God still. Why?

1. God is the Creator, life belongs to Him, what can a man say or do against Him, it's laughable.

2. Whom the Lord loveth, He chaseneth. There is no good parent that does not refine their child. Job has to think that the same God who gave knows best still when He takes away.

3. Job has talked to God before and God has heard him, and though he once wished for death, for God to leave him be, he now ask for him not to remove himself. Only God has the answer to this.

This is echoed in the voice of David, in the times of his deepest hurts, and with him you could easily make the connections, for the laws that God gave, David broke. He took many wives, he took the wife of another and became a murderer. God gave him the suffering of seeing his own wives with another, a son who was a rapest, another who would usurp the throne, Bathsheba's baby, the fruit of so many indiscretions led to death, but Job is wondering, "what are my sins?" Lord teach me, show me. Christ echoes this as well, but as the spotless lamb, obedient even to death on the cross. "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? Father, You can do anything, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not my will, but yours be done." This destroys Satan's argument as to Job's loyalty, for even not  understanding, and with the hedge torn down, his wealth evaporated before his eyes, even though it has touched his bones, "though You slay me, yet will I praise You."

I see another picture here, but I will need to examine it a bit more, maybe save it for the summation or maybe it will show itself again in later chapters, but I think that it has already risen to the surface in Job's life prior to here, only I missed it then.