Day 20: Job 6-9

In the midst of all Job's suffering he says this in 6:10:

I would still have this consolation—
   my joy in unrelenting pain—
   that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.

Job may not have "denied the words of the Holy One" but he is not shy about his complaints. It seems a bit ironic to me that Job is wishing for the very thing that God did not allow Satan to do. Job wishes he would just die and get it over...but God allowed Satan to do pretty much anything but that. The thing I'm starting to see here is that God doesn't mind if we take our grievances to Him. Job is pretty vocal about how this whole thing seems unfair. He says this in 7:20:

 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
   you who sees everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?
   Have I become a burden to you?^[c]

The answers we get from God (if indeed we get any) may or may not satisfy our self-centered perspective but we can be honest with Him. We may as well...He knows anyway.

I think my favorite part of today's reading were the very last ones. Ch. 9:32-35

³² “He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him,
   that we might confront each other in court.
³³ If only there were someone to mediate between us,
   someone to bring us together,
³⁴ someone to remove God’s rod from me,
   so that his terror would frighten me no more.
³⁵ Then I would speak up without fear of him,
   but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

I had never noticed this before. He may not realize what he's wishing for here. He's wishing for what we have. Jesus does for us exactly what Job describes in these verses. We DO have that mediator. He DOES remove God's rod from us. We CAN speak up without fear.