Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy eight

                                       Job 30:1-31

In Job 30:1-18, Job complained that even the evil criminals that the good people of his community had driven into the wilderness now held him in derision. Job felt despair because he had become humiliated by the sons of these vile criminals who openly mocked him and bullied him. But these verses constitute a prophecy that even though evil has caused mankind to suffer, one day God will completely separate all evil from all the goodness He has put into man. God will cast all evil into the lake of fire and preserve all of the good systems that He created forever. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.

In Job 30:19-22, Job allowed his despair and dismay to cause him to become angry with God. Job accused God of abandoning him and refusing to hear his prayers. God did not become angry with Job. God understands that humans display a wide range of emotions especially when in states of suffering and despair. God displayed compassion toward Job and patience with him and supplied Job with an answer for his anger and despair.

According to Job 19:25-27, Job knew that he had a Redeemer who had saved him by grace, and who would bring his soul, after his physical death, to stand alive in God's presence. But God had not revealed to Job that he would have a home with Him in heaven forever. But according to Job 30:22-24, God revealed to Job that following his physical death, God would bring him "to the house appointed for all living." In Job's case, "this house;" that is, his eternal place would be with God in heaven, but God did not make that clear to Job. But God's prophecy given to Job also had a deeper meaning which is that "all living" have a "house," or eternal place, for them following their physical deaths. God's revelation confirms God's Word in Genesis 3:20 and in Luke 20:38 that God will preserve forever His living image that He has put into every human even though He must consign all humans not saved by grace to one of the regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Revelation 20:13.

In Job 30:24, God revealed to Job that even though humans cry out to Him from the regions of the dead, God will not pull them out of their graves to restore them to their former lives, but He will destroy them. But God's destruction means that He will dissolve their systems so that He can separate and recover His living images in them from their evil deaths also within them. God's destruction of their systems will mean that they will lose their former identities and personalities, but God will cleanse and preserve their living images for Him to use to recreate a righteous people to live forever on His recreated earth. John 12:25; Revelation 21:1-5.