Today, I am reading and commenting on  Job 6-10.

There is really a lot in what Job says in today’s passage.  I do not think I will cover all of it.  I will start with Job’s expression of his feelings.  He told his friends that he was in so much misery that he wanted to die.  He felt like he had no more strength to endure the pain.  He just wanted the pain to end.  Instead of giving him words of encouragement, Bildad accused him of sin, told him that all of his suffering was because he had sinned.  Job replies by expressing how great God is, that a mere human cannot hope to confront God, cannot even understand God’s perspective well enough to make a case for being innocent before Him.  Job then says one of the most important things in this book.  He asks for a mediator between himself and God, for someone who he, a mere mortal, could comprehend whom a mortal could trust to understand the concerns of a mortal and convey them to God.  I have worded that poorly, but Job was asking for Jesus.  Jesus is the mediator for whom Job yearned.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.