Job 6-9: Job's Friends, Really So Bad?

Job and His False Comforters
Jean Fouquet c. 1460
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Job 8:7 “And though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.”

Job’s friend, Bildad, unknowingly prophesied Job’s end of prosperity as he chided him for hidden sin. As I think about Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar, I wonder if they were really attempting to hurt Job.

*Could it be that they only spoke the revelation  they had of Job's situation and of God's heart at that moment?

*Were they really trying to be cruel?

*Could they have just wanted to see their friend healed and restored and out of
desperation spoke out their own wisdom?

*How often has that happened in the church today?

*How many times have I spoken what I thought was right, but wasn’t God’s heart?

Job has the answer to these questions when he says, 


“But how can mortal man be right before God?” (Job 9:2b)

Job didn’t know the answer to that question, but we do. Jesus is the way a mortal man can be right before God!

Thank You, Jesus, for making me right before Abba…for forgiving when I have misspoken, missed the mark, and plain old messed up! You are worthy of my praise. My adoration belongs to You. I will worship You for eternity! AMEN!!!