{"id":4026,"date":"2023-08-08T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2023-08-14T02:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T02:07:04","slug":"why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4026","title":{"rendered":"Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People? (Part Five)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zophar now spoke up\u2026.\u201dYou\u2019re all talking too much and getting nowhere! Job, you think you know all the answers! If only we could hear what God has to say, He would tell us what this is all about\u2026\u2026\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How often we feel like this!\u00a0 In times of trouble, God seems to be far away. \u201cYou must have done something wrong, Job, for this to happen to you. If you put your sin away, then God will make things come right, there will be light at the end of the tunnel. That\u2019s the way to be safe from further trouble\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Job was getting fed up with all these accusations and assumptions that he was a secret sinner. \u201cIt\u2019s alright for you to talk! But I\u2019m just as good as you are! There\u2019s no need for people to laugh at me\u2026.just ask the animals, they know that God exists! We all know that He is in control of everything on earth, and that He makes the nations great and then pulls them down. I just wish I could speak directly to God, I would present my case as if I were in a court of law! You are all no help at all to me, you just condemn me out of hand!\u201d      Job now makes a great statement of his faith in God\u2026.\u201dEven if He kills me, I will still hope that He will listen to my reasons. I just want two things from Him\u2026relief from this pain and then Him calling to me so I can answer! I know that we only live a few days and are then gone like a flower that withers away. A tree has more hope than we do\u2026if it gets cut down then it will sprout again from its roots! But when we die, is there any hope?\u201d Job seems to have reached the pit of despair\u2026..\u201dAll this pain is like the wearing away of a mountain face by the continual running of water\u2026.nothing else counts in the face of this affliction!\u201d What a lesson to us! Let us never waiver in our faith in times of trouble!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Eliphaz tries again,  and is even more condemning this time than the first time\u2026 \u201cThe trouble with you Job, is that you talk as though you know everything! You say wrong things, and you condemn yourself while you talk!\u201d     He carried on in his rhetoric\u2026 \u201cWere you the first man to be born? Do you know more than we do? You just listen to me! Those who turn against God get nowhere, all that they do turns to dust! You can\u2019t get anywhere fighting against God.\u201d    Job was fast losing patience with his friends and replied to this by saying, \u201cI\u2019ve heard all this before\u2026a miserable lot of comforters you all are! You don\u2019t know what it feels like\u2026I feel full of wrinkles, and it\u2019s as though God has taken me and shaken me to bits. I\u2019ve cried until I can cry no more, and my friends all scorn me. It won\u2019t be long before I\u2019m dead, and then I can be buried. I feel just like a shadow, and there\u2019ll be nothing of me left by the time this is all over!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Perhaps you have felt like this at times\u2026.but take heart, God never leaves His own. In the midst of all these trials, Job was learning things that he would never forget, and that he would be able to pass on to others in the future. . (Job, chapters 11-17)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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