Job
21:34 KJV
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
remaineth falsehood?
The thought occurs to me that Job's friends answered Job
much like Eve answered the serpent. Her words were not necessarily opposed to
the words of God, but they weren't accurate either. One can find God's Word in
her response but, when careful examination is made, we find that she both added
to God's Word and injected a measure of judgmentalism that wasn't intended by
God.
Job's friends spoke basic truth. Sometimes we read their
words and have trouble seeing anything other than the truth in them. But Job
insists there is falsehood in them, and he would know better than us. The
falsehood exists:
In the
attitude in which their words are given
These were meant to
- Accuse
- Demean and
- Judge
Job. Though they had no evidence of wrongdoing or sin in
the life of Job, their arrogance could not conceive of any other explanation
for his suffering.
In the
lack of balance in their words
Like Eve, they added to what was known of God a harshness
that doesn't exist in the Word of God.
We must be careful that we are not guilty of the same
error. When we apply God's Word in a tone of harshness and judgmentalism we
turn the truth of God's Word into a lie.
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