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

In many ways the Book of Job illustrates that sometimes the best thing you can do to comfort a friend who is suffering is to merely sit there and listen to them.  In his first two monologues Job expresses his desire for an end to his suffering, he asks for death rather than to continue suffering (it just occurred to me that the Book of Job may be a case study against assisted suicide).  In the second monologue which starts today’s passage, Job seeks death because if he were to die at this point he could be sure that he had not denied God, which would give him consolation and even joy.  But Job’s friends, in their effort to help him, accuse him of wickedness.  In a way, they are taking from him his one remaining comfort.  In their effort to find a way to help him, Job’s friends actually lead him into the sin of questioning God’s justice (perhaps sin is too strong of a word here, but God does call Job out for questioning Him at the end of the Book).  So, let us seek to remain faithful to God, even when we face suffering, and let us seek to not make the mistake which Job’s friends made of accusing our friends of sin when they suffer.

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