Job 31
Job is convinced that what has happened to him is NOT a sign of God’s displeasure. He asks his friends where wisdom is to be mined; it is to be found in the fear of God, not in his supposed sinful state. He acknowledges that his life was blessed in the past, and that now it is turned completely upside down with no-one to support him. In today’s chapter he states how willing he is to face the consequences of any of his sins, but he knows that his present life circumstances are not because of any particular sin, and the hardest part is not being able to present his case and clear his name. A fourth ‘friend’ now weighs in; a younger man. It is true that wisdom can be found in the young; will it be found in this young man though? (Cliffhanger into next week’s readings!)

The Revd. David Hildred