OUR FATHER WHO SHARED OUR ANGUISH

The book of Job chapter 17 verses 4 - 5 says this;

You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.

If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.

This passage records some words spoken by Job as he conversed with his friends who had come to comfort him after he was ruined through the loss of his children, his finances and his health.

Speaking of the mockers who jeered at him, Job states that the Lord had closed their minds to understanding and as such, they would not triumph.

And those who turned on their friends for a reward would have their children struck by blindness.

These words of judgment appear to be the words of the Lord Jesus responding to the mockers who jeered at him and spat on him as well as on Judas who had betrayed him for the rewards of money.

As Job recounts his afflictions in this chapter, he alludes to circumstances that transend his own life and speaks the words of the Lord Jesus as He contemplates the nature of hope in the face of death.

Thus Job, enveloped in anguish, speaks as a prophet and pre-records the inner monologue of the Messiah who will go though the anguish of utter destruction even unto death on a cross.

Amen.

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