JOB 9 – the inexplicable, inexhaustible, incomprehensible, unfathomable, irrefutable, indescribable, unmistakable, indubitable majesty and grandeur of GOD

JOB 9 IN FULL

There’s just something about God, that makes me excited, and its his grandeur! (see title!)

We have now come to Job 9 and we see Job’s reply to his second friend who has spoken to him following the death of his children, the destruction of his estate and his skin disease! And it is to me an amazing oral dedication to the majesty and SUPREMACY of God; now don’t get me wrong Job is accusing God in parts in this chapter of abandoning the innocent and he wishes to speak with him to present his case, but let’s look at some stuff that still comes out of this man’s mouth in the midst of his perplexity. (THIS GUY HAS LOST EVERYTHING! HAS GOT SOME MASH UP SKIN DISEASE YET STIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL THIS STUFF COMES OUT OF HIS MOUTH) – excuse the bad spelling, grammar i.e. “mash up” and capitals, I’m just blown away!

Then Job answered and said:
“Truly I know that it is so:
But how can a man bein the right before God?
If one wished tocontend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand times (verses 1-3)

who alone stretched out the heavens
and trampled the waves of the sea;
who made the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the chambers of the south (verses 8-9)

Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not;
he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
Behold, he snatches away;who can turn him back?
Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’ (verses 11-12)

If it is a contest ofstrength, behold, he is mighty!
If it is a matter of justice, who cansummon him? (verse 19)

For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him (verse 32)

Now Job does accuse God here in other parts of the chapter of possibly punishing the innocent (himself) and he seeks to have a meet and counsel with God, but through his ‘over the line’ presumption on the character of God and encroachment, he still has to recognise, as we all do the supremacy and height of the Lord God of all creation!

This is an example to everyone in Christ when we go through times of suffering, its terrible and treacherous and altogether horrible at times, but we got to look to the example set in part by this man, he still has a recognition of the sovereignty of God!