Since He judges those on high?...How then can you comfort me with empty words,
Since falsehood remains in your answers?" vv.22, 34
Read chapter 21
Job's friends were making themselves wiser than God and becoming His teachers. They were substituting their principles for His. "Will any teach knowledge unto God? Shall we insist on His method of government being what it plainly is not? This is what it is: One man dieth in his full prosperity,—wholly at ease and quiet. Another man dieth in the bitterness of his soul and has not tasted pleasure. They lie down alike in the dust and the worm covers them. Their different fortune is not determined by their different character. The one is not good and the other wicked. But God distributes to them as He chooses" (Cambridge Bible). How often this still happens today:/ That we make our principles God's; yes a lot of our principles in the US are based off the Bible but every state is different, every family is different, every country is different, so how can we know which is God's choice.
So Job knowing his friends arguments are not God's he finds their words vain and do not console. "True consolation could be founded only on correct views of the divine government; but such views, Job says, they had not. With their conceptions of the divine administration, they could not administer to him any real consolation" (Biblehub.com).
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