Job 24

Job 24:1

Job now lists the open sins of other people. Some are dishonest. They remove the landmarks from the land.

Job 24:3

They are not honest in their dealings, and they take advantage of other people, even those who are in need.

Job 24:6

The corn crop of the wicked makes just as many bushels to the acre as does the crop of the righteous. Job is asking, “Why does this happen?” They have committed murder, they have robbed, they have committed adultery; yet this whole evil group is permitted to go down to the grave like all others.

Job 24:19

Not only do they go down to the grave like others, but it seems that they are immune from justice in this life. In fact, it looks as if they are actually favored. Job looks at his own conditionhe is sick and destitute, and he looks over at the wicked and sees them getting along nicely. He says, “I just don’t understand it. I want to know why I am ferreted out, why I am the one who is being treated in this way.”

Job 24:25

Job’s friends have not helped him. In fact, they have given him another cause for complaint. As the pastor of churches and in my ministry I have heard one question, I would be willing to say, almost a thousand times: “Why does God let this happen to me?” One hears it over and over again. That is what Job is asking here. Why does God let this happen to me? Job’s premise is: “I am such a fine fellow and that crowd over there is wicked, so why me?” It is the same question that comes into the minds of many people. Job does not understand God, and we will find that Job doesn’t understand himself, either. And yet Job has a great faith in God with the limited knowledge that he has.