Job 19-22

“They spend their days in prosperity …” (21:13).  Job’s friends tried to convince him that his troubles were his own fault, because they believed that good deeds produced earthly prosperity and sin led to destruction.  But Job disagreed; he saw evil people who died “wholly at ease and secure” (21:23), and he himself was a good man who lost everything.  Where then was justice? Job waited for God’s answer.

“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth … I will see God” (19:25). Job sensed that he would only find answers in God’s presence.Now we see “through a mirror dimly, but then we will see face to face” (I Cor 13).