The Only One Brave Enough To Question Him.

Job seems to be a revolutionary man of the times. He questions and challenges the thoughts of everybody. He has some philosophical believes and is willing to make his friends think differently and scorns at them making them feel insulted. “4: But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.” Job 13. He is himself insulted by the fact that God cannot be spoken to or seen. I like the way he thinks, he is not stupid or dumb, he wants explanations and gets upset. “16: He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.” Job 13. It is the first time I hear the word “hypocrite” in the Bible. I find myself using it very often because at CNG it is kind of a daily problem.

Hypocrite :
Pronunciation [hip-uh-krit]–noun
1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2.a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

Job says that God should be his salvation, not another who thinks himself better, a hypocrite, “who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles,” he doesn’t trust the people, his distrusts the humans, but at the same time does not give all his trust to God. I like the fact that he questions him because it makes the rest of the people, as well, ask for more clearness. His friends, like Elihu, who tries to explain to Job the real God, and how to communicate with him. He tells Job that God communicates by visions, or by pain. For me, there is simply not a God, nor an Almighty, or a LORD. There are us, with our own mind power and capable to reach peace within ourselves without the need of any “being” to make us believe that he is the one who controls everything and who we should fear. The Bible mentions continuously the obligation to fear God. Job is scorned because he doesn’t fear God enough and threatens him. Why should we fear him? If he is supposed to be our salvation then there is no need for fear! I like the characteristics of Job, he is by far the only one brave enough to question Him.