Job 30:25

JOB SPEAKS OF THE EVIL THAT CAME UPON HIM; NOT AS SOMETHING GOD DID TO HIM; BUT AS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED.

If Job had been full of animosity toward God, as so many of the writers seem to believe, these final verses of the chapter would have been the proper place to say it; but there's not the slightest hint in these final verses that God was the cause of Job's suffering.

"Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?

Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

When I looked for good, then evil came;

And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

My heart is troubled, and resteth not;

Days of affliction are come upon me.

I go mourning without the sun:

I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

I am a brother to jackals,

And a companion to ostriches.

My skin is black, and falleth from me,

And my bones are burned with heat.

Therefore is my harp turned to mourning,

And my pipe into the voice of them that weep."

Note this paragraph. Job loves God, and trusts him, attends the assemblies, stands up and cries for help; and there's not a word in it that may be construed as any kind of a false charge or allegations against God. How then can we explain the comment on this very paragraph? which construes it as Job's charge that, "I was merciful; but you (God) are merciless."[27]

In the light of all that the Holy Scriptures teach regarding the God of heaven who is merciful, slow to anger, abundant in lovingkindness, etc., and along with that truth the statement of God at the close of this book that Job had always spoken the truth concerning God, we find it difficult indeed to accept some of the translations which seem to contradict this, especially when anywhere from one or two to six or eight verses in such passages are admittedly corrupt.