hi :)
job 20 - it's yet again another chapter of job's frienemy telling him about how only wicked people suffer. he goes on about how wicked people deserve punishment. this ultimately makes job a wicked person too, because he's undergoing a massive punishment at the moment.
job 21 - job answers his frienemy that actually, the wicked do indeed prosper. job says that there's tons of God-less people who live happily and with wealth, without having to suffer from God's judgment. job tells his friend to stop telling him stuff about how job must be suffering b/c only the wicked suffer... b/c it's not helping him feel better.
job 22 - it's pretty much the same thing in this chapter too... another one of job's frienemies telling him stuff that will only make him feel worse. he says a wicked man is of no use to God.
the book of job is so long! i'm still only halfway through.
anyway, some thoughts-
job's friends are really messed up for telling job that his sufferings must originate from his wickedness... b/c job is not a wicked man!
but as for me, i'm NOT a not-wicked person. i AM a wicked person. therefore, what job's friends were saying about wicked people - i feel like that all applies to me. i deserve to be punished, i deserve to have everything taken away from me, i deserve to be very very low on God's "people to love" list. so when i was reading chapter 20 and 22 (where job's frienemies describe the toils the wicked will have to go through) i kept getting nervous and guilty because i felt like those things will eventually be inflicted upon me too.
i know you and i talked about how this kind of attitude is NOT right... how God loves us ALL people... but it's so hard to break away from this self-deprecating mindset. :(
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