Job 13-19

“Your maxims are proverbs of ashes” (13:12). Job’s friends, seeing his disasters, could only spout ‘common sense’: Job must have sinned. Job called them “miserable comforters” (16:2-3) and insisted on his innocence. He was angry, yet he stubbornly clung to the belief that one day, he would stand before God and get answers. “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face” 13:15.

“I know that my redeemer lives,” Job declared, and in the end “I will see God ... with my own eyes” (19:25-27). One day we will see the Lord face to face and “know fully, even as we are fully known” (I Cor 13:12).