This time Job doesn't even bother to respond directly to his friends, instead he seeks God directly. He is getting closer to where God wants him to be, though there is still a long way to go.
Job wants to meet with God. Then he believes that he will be shown to be innocent, that God will put things right.
Yet wherever he looks he cannot find God. At the same time Job knows that God can see him. Whatever we are going through just now, however far away God seems, we can be sure that God is fully aware of what is happening to us. Job is also confident that after testing he will be pure gold.
Job has a confidence in his own righteousness and feels that God is against him. So what are we to learn from this? Through our faith in Christ we are indeed righteous before God. We need to be confident in this. There is both a fear of God and a boldness in Job.
One final thought. If you were making up a book about God you would not create the book of Job. This book can only have had its origins in the mind of God Himself.
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