TAWG - June 12, 2024 - Job 9:1-35
June 12, 2024

Job 9:1-35

9:1-10:22 | Job did not so much respond to Bildad as to God. Here, he introduces a new theme – his need for a mediator to stand before Yahweh to plead his case. Job wanted an occasion to speak to God about the injustice of his suffering.

9:1-35 | As Job expressed his sense of futility about finding vindication (how can a man be righteous?) before Almighty God, he revealed something deeper: Job could not dispute with God; he could not discern God’s ways; and now he was unsure whether he could depend on God.

9:2-15 | The sea was viewed as a force of evil in the ancient world and the stars were objects of worship for some. Job realized that the greatness and wisdom by which God created the world were the very things that would prevent any mere mortal from winning a case against Him (Ps. 104:2-3; Isa. 40:22).

9:32-35 | In Jesus is the answer to Job’s anguish and the cry of every human heart: “Who is going got help me get to God?” In Jesus is the one of whom Paul said: “There is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. 2:5).

9:32 | When Job said, He is not a man as I am, he did not anticipate that one day God would become a Man – a Mediator to bridge the gap that Job so painfully described. Fully God, Jesus could reach out one hand to His Father in heaven. Fully man, He could reach out His other hand to humanity.