Today, I am reading and commenting on  Job 11-15.

I have been trying to decide what to write about today’s passage for a few hours now.  I first thought to write that Job’s friends illustrate the lesson that those who are wrong can make arguments which sound convincing and right.  That is definitely true here: Job’s friends make some good points, but they were in the wrong, the argument they were making was wrong.  Then, I realized that while Job was closer to the truth than his friends, he was also wrong.  Job’s friends thought that because he was suffering, he was obviously a sinner, and because they were not suffering, they were obviously more righteous than he.  They thought they were better than him.  Job, on the other hand, challenged God’s justice and demanded that God explain to him why he was suffering.  So, I thought as I read this that this passage teaches us two things.  First, just because someone builds their argument using true statements does not mean that their conclusion is correct.  Second, just because someone reaches an incorrect conclusion does not mean that none of their arguments are valid.

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