A Study in Job

In his pre-scripture ignorance, Job asks questions for which we have answers. He asks, “Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, so that I am a burden to myself? Why then do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity?”

It would be wonderful if this wicked world would ask, “Have I sinned?” But without a confrontation with the moral Law there is no knowledge of our sinful condition. We think we are good people until the Law is applied to the conscience, and it’s awakened to do its God-given duty.

Job then asks, “What have I done to You?” The answer is that we have all greatly offended God. We have angered Him by our many sins. When lie, steal, kill, blaspheme, commit adultery, or break any of the Ten Commandments, we sin against God. This is why a guilty King David cried, “Against You and You only have I sinned and done this evil in your sight.”

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