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Daily Bible - And I Thought My Life Could be Hard

Today's Reading is found in Job 8:1 to Job 11:20.

Another of Job's friends now speaks up, saying that if he is blameless, God will lift him up again to greater esteem and happiness. That's a pretty tentative show of support in my opinion. So Job responds by saying that next to God, nobody could be blameless, no matter how good they were. Were the barbs of Job's "friends" sinking in a bit? His response reminds me of the promise of a savior:

He is not a man like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court. If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God's rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot. -Job 9:32-35(NIV)

And a third "friend" responds, wishing God would speak out against Job and let him know just how Job has wronged him. I tell you, with friends like this, who needs enemies?