Job 13:1-28

13:3-4 | After a litany of wounding words from his friends, whom he declared a bunch of useless quacks (worthless physicians), Job all the more desired an audience with God. He used similar pronouncements regarding Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar elsewhere.

13:15 | Because he had not been present to hear the interaction between God and Satan, Job could not know the significance of these words, which delivered a direct answer to Satan’s taunts in 1:9-12 and 2:4-6. Job’s declaration proved his unconditional trust in God. Ultimately for Job, God was enough.

13:20-14:22 | Job transitions here from reply to lament, pleading with God for an audience.

13:28-14:12 | Without the benefit of the NT Scriptures, Job had no knowledge of resurrection or the age to come. Still, he well knew the fixed nature of death in this life – that once people die, their physical bodies do not wake up. His understanding was consistent with the NT, which teaches that the bodies of those who die in this age remain in the grave until the coming of Christ in the last days (1 Thess. 4:13-17; Rev. 20:4-6).