The Vindication, Restoration and Blessing of Job

[Sung Psalm: 126]

We saw last time that Job is comforted by the vision of God. It's not that just “seeing something” makes him feel better; what God says is absolutely essential to the process! – but Job, the suffering Servant of the LORD, now has the one thing that he desired above all else:

“I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.” (10:2)

Many people think that God fails to explain to Job what had happened. But if you understand the Beast and the Dragon (Behemoth and Leviathan) in terms of what these images would mean in the ancient world, then you start to realize that God is telling Job exactly what just happened to him...