He recognizes that it would be a bad reflection on his character if he were to simply flatter them. ![]() He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children will fail: Job here seemed to justify his harsh words towards his friends. God’s withholding of understanding from them was an evidence of His displeasure towards them.ĭ. Therefore You will not exalt them: At the same time, Job’s friends were accountable for their lack of understanding. Ultimately, even the unsympathetic manner of his friends was an aspect of Job’s crisis allowed by God.Ĭ. ![]() You have hidden their heart from understanding: Job understood that if God had wanted to inform the hearts of his friends, He was fully capable of doing so. In a small way, Job grasped the whole tone of salvation under the New Covenant: God has made the atonement and the reconciliation we do not have to do it ourselves.ī. Who else will put up security for me? The idea is that Job cried out to God and said, “ You will have to set this right God it is beyond me to do it.” This is especially meaningful in light of the main idea of Job’s friends, that it was his responsibility to repent and set things right between himself and God. The NIV translation of Job 17:3 is helpful: Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Here, he pleaded for an agreement of peace between himself and heaven. Who is he who will shake hands with me: Job felt – rightly so, according to his circumstances – that heaven was against him. “Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.įor You have hidden their heart from understanding Įven the eyes of his children will fail.”Ī. (3-5) Job begs heaven to sustain and support him. Are not mockers with me: The lack of sympathy and help from Job’s friends – that they started out as sympathetic sufferers (as in Job 2:11-13) but became mockers when Job did not respond to their wisdom as they thought he should – was an especially painful aspect of his crisis. My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished: Job continued his same sense of defeat and brokenness as described in the previous chapter.ī. ![]() (1-2) Job’s broken spirit.Īnd does not my eye dwell on their provocation?”Ī. Job directs a complaint both towards earth and towards heaven. Job 17 – Job Confronts both God and His Friends A.
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