Today’s passage: Job 25
Helpful thoughts:
- Bildad gives the final argument of the three friends.
- He believes Job’s claim to innocence is an impossibility before a holy God.
- Any claim to utter and complete righteousness is surely wrong. However, Bildad’s argument puts all four of the men we see in this book so far in a place where they should also be seeing judgment.
- If no one is righteous, and if Job deserved what he got from God…then all three of Job’s friends had better buckle up, because they would be next.
- The friends have agreed to this argument. They have taken a hard line against Job. They have not taken into consideration the mercy, grace and patience of God. Nor, of course, the reality of Satan.
Questions to consider:
- If the argument of these three friends was accurate, what would be happening to every person who ever lived (Except for Jesus Himself)? What might their view have been toward their own sin? What room would the gospel have to fit into this theology?
- In what way are verses 2-4 correct? If Bildad understood the plan of God’s redemption of sinful man, what would be the conclusion of his statement following verse 4?