The Helpless Helpers
Job 26:2–4 (ESV) “How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength! 3 How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! 4 With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you? Job responds to the last of the friends' speeches with an intriguing question - where is this coming from? And what a question that is because all their voices have spoken is condemnation and guilt. Who is the author of that? The devil himself. Here's the thing about the devil. He will first use our desires against us and lead us to sin and then loudly condemn us when it's over suggesting we could NEVER be forgiven. He is indeed the voice of damnation and one day his own damnation will be well deserved. Now there is a question as to whether or not it is actually Job or the continuation of Bildad's final speech from Job 26:5 to the end of the chapter. As I read it, it could be either but I pick...