Job 20-21
Where could the book of Job go from the words of height, hope and holiness we read at the end of chapter 19 yesterday? Job, at the end of his rope, exercised a faith so completely connected with the UNSEEN, that he was able to “see” his Resurrected Savior in the midst of his loss. We know that from a height so high, there would have to be a “let-down;” but how would it come?
It came through the “comfort” of his fickle friend Zophar.
Zophar spends what will end up being his final dissertation describing—not so subtly—the falls and frustrations of the wicked. Without saying his name, Zophar is warning Job that the joys and satisfactions of the wicked are short-lived.
Job interrupts his personal highs and lows to counter Zophar’s assumptions, and give him a taste of Zophar’s+ own kind of comfort: You can say that the wicked do not prosper, but it sure looks like they do. Where is your evidence, Zophar, that they don’t. The wicked sing and grow old and find joy at about the same rate as everybody else! You are full of falsehoods, and partial falsehoods!
Job 20-21 make you wish the book had ended with Job 19!
Your brother in the Word,
Pastor Gary
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