If you have been following this, you probably wondered when we'd get to the end. The hard thing is that there is so much to Job. As you listened to his friends Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar more or less put him down as "you had to have done something wrong." In every case, Job's response was "I didn't do anything!" Yet, his friends persisted, based on their supposed knowledge of how life is – ie: "you do something bad, and something bad happens to you." So after all the older, wiser men had their turn, a young guy named Elihu…

Right now, in chapter 40, that was about how Job had to be feeling. Not only has God already said "put on your fighting clothes", He has been sparring with him. Now, comes the real test. "Since you have found so much wrong with Me (God), and you know everything that is wrong with Me and what I do, speak!" (verse 2) Job knew he was in a corner and in deep trouble. He recognizes that he is nothing (the word was "insignificant"), and as a result he said "Hush my mouth!" After all the words of Job and his…

God, in chapter 40, gives Job another chance to vent. Here it was, the opportunity again to tell God off! God gives Job an opening big enough to drive the proverbial truck through, and Job does not take it. God has been speaking using questions about natural things – clouds, weather, animals. Job has listened, but after all his desire to condemn God for punishing an innocent man, he is mute. It is as though God says "You say I am wrong – me the Almighty? Well then, let the one who critizes God answer these questions I have been…