In Job 7:17-21, we see Job complain that God appears hyper-focussed on man and proposes a novel solution:
Why do you not pardon my transgression
and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
But Bildad points out that a pardon would be unjust, which is something out of God's character.
“How long will you say these things,
and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
So Job asked the telling question:
“Truly I know that it is so:
But how can a man be in the right before God?"
How is it possible, in a legal argument with God, to “be in the right (tsadaq)"? How would the case even be tried? In Job 9:1-12, Job describes God as an incredible invisible force. There is something missing.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,
that we should come to trial together.
There is no arbiter between us,
who might lay his hand on us both.
This arbiter was not revealed until the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, when not a pardon was given, but rather a ransom was paid.
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
This solution laid hidden from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:7-9), but its need is uncomfortably exposed in the heart of everyone who quiets themselves, experiences creation and then meets the creator.
Please see also Complaining.
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