The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Just” it comes from the Hebrew Word “tsadaq” which means “to be just, righteous.”
Job agrees God is just, but wonders how any mortal could possibly argue a case before Him. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Job 9.
Job responds that he knows this is true, but asks how a man should be “just,” “tsadaq” in Hebrew, with God, since if he wished to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one time in a thousand, describing God as wise in heart and mighty in strength, who removes mountains without their knowing, shakes the earth from its place, commands the sun and seals up the stars, alone spreading out the heavens and treading upon the waves of the sea.
Job describes God’s incomprehensible power and majesty, doing great things past finding out, marvellous things without number, passing by unseen and unperceived, taking away without anyone hindering Him or asking what He is doing, declaring that though he were righteous, he would not answer, but would make supplication to his judge, and even if he called and God answered him, he would not believe God was truly listening to his voice, since God breaks him with a tempest and multiplies his wounds without cause.
Job laments that he is not allowed to take his breath, but is filled with bitterness, declaring that if the matter concerns strength, God is strong, and if judgment, who shall set a time for him to plead, insisting that though he were perfect, it would prove him perverse, since it is all one, God destroys the perfect and the wicked alike, and if a scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the trial of the innocent, wishing desperately for a “daysman,” a mediator, who might lay his hand upon them both, since there is no such arbiter between them, closing this chapter with genuine, aching longing for someone able to bridge the vast gap between his own limited humanity and God’s overwhelming, incomprehensible power.
Job’s longing for a daysman, a mediator able to stand between himself and God, expresses a profound spiritual need that echoes throughout Scripture and ultimately finds its answer in Christ, the one mediator between God and humanity. This chapter’s raw honesty about feeling unable to reach God despite genuine innocence captures a universal human ache that this book, remarkably, never dismisses as inappropriate or faithless.
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