Commentary on the Book of Job part fourteen

                                       Job 10:1-22

The key to understanding chapter 10 lies in Job's statement in verse 15, ",,,I am full of confusion..." Job could not understand the seeming contradiction in God's dealing with him. Job knew that God had given him life and favor, and yet, God had caused him to suffer terribly. In verse 2, Job asked God in effect, What are you doing? Please explain?

In Job 10:6-7, God caused Job to realize that he was a sinner but not wicked. Job knew that he was as righteous before God as an imperfect man could be, but he also knew that he was a sinner because he felt that weakness within himself that caused him to sin. But God had also caused Job to realize that he was not wicked because the wicked practice deliberate sins and rebellion against God. The wicked never repent, and are totally evil, and Job knew he was not like them.

In these verses, God displayed His entire attitude toward sin and evil that He had in the beginning of the human race. Sin means all forms of disobedience to God whether from weakness or rebellion. Evil and wickedness mean only sins of unrepentant rebellion against God. In the beginning, Adam and Eve sinned because of weakness, but they also deliberately disobeyed God. But because they repented of both types of sins, God reduced their rebellious sins to that of weakness and completely forgave them and restored them to His grace. Genesis 3:21. God forgives both forms of sin when one repents and humbles oneself to God. Mark 3:28. But in Mark 3:29, Jesus spoke of the sin of rebellion against God which never repents, and God never forgives. God cursed only the total evil of the Devil which never repents. God did not curse the living humans whom He created. Genesis 3:14. An exact reading of John 1:29 reveals that Christ came to take away only the sin of the world, not living humans. God can never lose anything He has ever created, including all living humans. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29.

All through the Bible (KJB), God displayed compassion toward sins of weakness, but terrible judgment against wicked sins of rebellion. In Numbers 15:24-36, God demonstrated a difference in His attitude toward sins of ignorance; that is, sins of weakness, and presumptuous sins; that is, sins of deliberate and unrepentant rebellion. God forgives all sins when humans repent and humble themselves to God. Mark 3:28. In the end of the world, God will separate the sins of rebellion, which never repents, from living humans who have repented and will cast their spiritual deaths into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15. All living humans within the places of death will repent as recorded in Revelation 5:13. When Christ walked the earth, He always displayed great compassion toward sins of weakness, but deliberate sins of cruelty and oppression, such as those practiced by the Pharisees and Sadducees for which they never repented, Christ condemned in the harshest possible terms. Matthew chapter 23.