Fri.’s Devo - Zophar Speaks Up

Read Job 11:1-20 Zophar decides to take the challenge. I think if I had been Zophar I would have lived up to my name and “departed early”….(that’s what his name means). But, he want his time in the sun, so he speaks up. He also wants Job to repent. He starts out asking Job who he things he is to think he is so faultless. If God was taking his try, he would show Job some things he doesn’t know because God is so much deeper. He asks Job if he thinks his wisdom is higher than God’s. For, he explains, only God’s thoughts are as high as heaven and as deep as hell. Ig God chooses to judge someone - who can stop him. Then he gives a comical adage: The day a brainless man is wise is the day a donkey will birth a man. He tells Job that if he will humble himself and repent and put away his sin that he will be clean, steadfast, with nothing to fear. Then God will turn everything around for him. But if he is wicked, then he will not be able to escape God’s hand and his only hope will be death. This seems to be the case to all watching but we know it isn’t. Lord, help us to be good counselors when we see people hurting around us. Let us be slow to speak, quick to hear and may we rely on the Holy Spirit’s answer - not our own.