May 16, 2025 - Job 25-31

Bildad continues the line of reasoning presented by all Job’s friends:  “How then can man be in the right before God?  How can he who is born of woman be pure?    Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”  (25:4-6)  Of course, this is the great question with which the Bible has to do, i.e., how can we be made right before God.  Certainly not by our own efforts or goodness.  Job mocks his accusers, suggesting they know the answer:  “How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!” (26:3)  And Job, while rejecting the arguments made to him, continues to seek the answer to the question:  “From where, then, does wisdom come?  And where is the place of understanding? It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air. (28:20-21).  He does not know the answer but, perhaps, there is One who does:  “God understands the way to it, and he knows its place” 28:23).  Things hidden.  Things known only to God.  Things that will be revealed.  Could this just possibly be that which Paul writes about, that is, “the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints?” (Colossians 1:26)

Come behold the wondrous mystery

He the perfect Son of Man.

In His living, in His suffering

never trace nor stain of sin.

See the true and better Adam

come to save the hell-bound man.

Christ the great and sure fulfillment

of the law; in Him we stand.   –David Toledo (2013)