Job 9:25-10:22
Dear RTB’ers,
One of our shorter Job readings today – Job continues to reply to Bildad from yesterday. He continues to see God as all-powerful and makes Him out to be his adversary, with no one who can stand up to God on his behalf.
The contrast between two sections in chapter 10 is striking. First we have Job speaking lovingly of God’s creation of him: Your hands fashioned and made me,… You have made me like clay;… You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and Your care has preserved my spirit. (vv. 10:8-12) Then he reverses that love a few verses later, wishing that he had never been born: Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. (vv. 10:18-19) In between these two sets of verses Job claims that God is against him, whether he is guilty or innocent, whether he does right or does wrong.
Today’s reading closes with Job asking God to just leave him alone: Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer before I go … to the land of darkness and deep shadow… (vv. 10:20-21). I feel sad for Job.
Blessings!
See also: February 10 (2022) / Job 10.