Job 35

Job 35  

FRIDAY  Reflections

Elihu asks a question which I find interesting, does our sin or our righteousness really affect God?  Yes, I believe God is saddened when we choose to reject him and hurt others. Scripture speaks of God being angered, but ultimately what we do does not change Him. Yes, our actions do affect us and the world around us, but our actions do not make God more or less than what he is, a holy and righteous God.

This last statement in chapter 35 causes me to smile. How often have we as people talk like we knew something only to find out later we didn’t? Job spoke from his experience and his emotions but he didn’t understand everything as God will reveal to him in a few chapters.

We need to be willing to admit we may not see it all.   

 Job 35:1-16

(1)  Elihu spake moreover, and said,

(2)  Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

(3)  For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

(4)  I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

(5)  Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

(6)  If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

(7)  If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

(8)  Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

(9)  By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

(10)  But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

(11)  Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

(12)  There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

(13)  Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

(14)  Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

(15)  But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

(16)  Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

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