Job 9-10

Job affirms that Bildad is right in saying that God is just.  But he is also convinced that he has a right relationship with God, so nothing he had done brought this calamity upon him.  Truth collides with truth.  God is both the problem and the solution, yet Job realizes that there is no arbiter.  Whatever happens, God is going to have to do it.  In Job’s day – as well as today – many spend their lives looking for ways to manipulate things to their advantage.  Some choose science, others demonic magic, others religion, but they are all trying to do the same thing.  Job realizes that it cannot be done.  Fate cannot be changed on this side of the human/divine divide.  Even if Job were able to convince his friends that he is innocent, that would not change things.  He is helpless before an omnipotent God.

LORD, we rely upon you.  Rescue us from the lie that we can handle things.