Job 25-26Job allows Bildad only six verses before he cuts him off. He has had enough. Zophar will not even have another turn. Job’s response is like saying “do you really think God needs you to defend him?” You see, Job was not on trial, and neither was God. The three therapists and their presuppositions is what this is all about. Their conventional wisdom was making God the author of all the misfortune that Job suffered. We (the readers) know differently. We know about Satan, and his insistence on attacking Job to get him to renounce his faith. There is evil here, but it is not in God or his faithful servant. The evil is brought on by Satan, and helped by the prideful and their condemnation of the innocent. Job argues that God is above it all, and he is.
LORD, forgive us for blaming you for the evil that befalls us.
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