Read: Job 12:1-15:35; 1 Corinthians 15:29-58; Psalm 39:1-13; Proverbs 21:30-31
I love Job’s sarcasm: “Doubtless you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!” He has had enough of their empty wisdom which accuses him of what they can’t prove. He reminds them that he has a mind too and he is not inferior to them. Job makes the statement that men at ease have contempt for misfortune.
Job challenges his friends to ask the animals and let them teach him what they know of God. God is in control of all the earth and everything in it. The person who is deceived is his and the one who deceives is his. He exalts people and nations, and brings them down. No one can stop his hand.
Job explained that he desired an audience with God so he could present his case, but his friends were worthless physicians who only told him lies. Then he asks them how they would fare if God examined their lives like they were examining his. Then, what would become of their high and mighty counsel.
Job cries out to the Lord and begs him to meet with him and explain what He has against him. Job didn’t think it was fair to be punished for something he didn’t know he had done. He begs God to examine the good he has done instead of this secret sin he knows nothing about.
Eliphaz decided it was his turn to speak and questions Job’s wisdom. He describes Job’s speeches as hot air, valueless, and lies. He asks him if he thinks he knows everything and is above everyone else on the earth. Who was Job to think that God would think of any man as righteous. Eliphaz gives a vivid description of the plight of the wicked as a warning to Job that he might be getting close to this description with his arrogant claim that God was not fair.
In Corinthians, Paul explains that the resurrection is the power of the gospel. Without it we have no hope or future. The only way to have resurrection was to have death. Our bodies are made to wither and die, but our spiritual body is eternal and glorious.
Adam was the picture of the first man born of the dust of the earth. Jesus was a picture of the new man who came down from heaven. When we are resurrected, we will be spiritual. Death will be swallowed up in victory!
Lord, help us to number our days and see how fleeting life is and let us live fearlessly in total abandon to you.
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