To me Job had learned many things through the suffering he experienced. When at the first Job defended his righteousness and everything was about him, he now says in Job 40:4 "Behold, I am vile." His pride had been taken from him in Job 40:12, and he repents in Job 42:6.
Back in Job 9:33 Job does not see a "Daysman" (Jesus our mediator) between him and God. Job later declares in Job 23:10, "When He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Suffering was bringing its needed cure for Job's life. A far cry from that which he spoke in Job 3:1 as he cursed his day and in Job 3:3 wishing he was never born.
Job 42:3 He says here that he said things he didn't understand or that were too wonderful for him to know. God can sure change our perspectives. Now he is coming to knowing by experience what God is to him.
In Job 42:10 instead of defending himself Job prays for those friends that spoke against him and God turned the captivity he had experienced into blessings. Yes Job's eyes were seeing God and no longer looking at himself.
We are God's workmanship. What a wonderful thing to know we are in His hands, He will never leave nor forsake us, and our eyes will also see those things He is doing as He purifies us is for our good, and God is conforming us into the very image of His dear Son. Praise the Lord.
A past post should also be helpful at: http://www.christianforums.net/Fell.../book-of-job-central-theme.52997/#post-913449
Back in Job 9:33 Job does not see a "Daysman" (Jesus our mediator) between him and God. Job later declares in Job 23:10, "When He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Suffering was bringing its needed cure for Job's life. A far cry from that which he spoke in Job 3:1 as he cursed his day and in Job 3:3 wishing he was never born.
Job 42:3 He says here that he said things he didn't understand or that were too wonderful for him to know. God can sure change our perspectives. Now he is coming to knowing by experience what God is to him.
In Job 42:10 instead of defending himself Job prays for those friends that spoke against him and God turned the captivity he had experienced into blessings. Yes Job's eyes were seeing God and no longer looking at himself.
We are God's workmanship. What a wonderful thing to know we are in His hands, He will never leave nor forsake us, and our eyes will also see those things He is doing as He purifies us is for our good, and God is conforming us into the very image of His dear Son. Praise the Lord.
A past post should also be helpful at: http://www.christianforums.net/Fell.../book-of-job-central-theme.52997/#post-913449
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