Job 6:28-30

28 'And now please look at me, And see if I lie to your face. 29 'Desist now, let there be no injustice; Even desist, my righteousness is yet in it. 30 'Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern calamities? NASB

'Look at me,' Job says. 'Look at my condition. What do you see? Isn't my situation of extreme pain and suffering reason enough for me to cry out in complaint?'

To virtually anyone who has an once of common sense within them, the obvious should be, well obvious. But to the self-righteous person, the obvious is generally ignored if it does not fit in with what they want.

Self-righteous people ignore facts, and prefer their own version of reality. Their reality is what is best for them, and not necessarily what is best for others.

Self-righteousness is only interested in power, control, or popularity. To be the center of attention, and in charge, is more important than searching out solutions.

As we advance through this book, we will see that the arguments of Eliphaz and friends, are mere words conveying various principles of truth, but are disassociated from the reality of the situation. Job's situation.

Life is difficult enough when you have someone trying to teach truths, but distorting their application to a situation. Life is really tough, when you have someone trying to teach distortions, and further distorting them with even greater distortions. And when the latter is taken up by the media, or masses of the world, then you have a recipe preparing itself for global disaster.

Truth is simple in most cases. Truth is obvious in most cases. But when truth is ignored, when facts are not perfectly matched up with reality, then evil gains a foothold and people become the victims of their own ignorance.

Job says, 'Look.'

So as a believer in Christ, it is your obligation to look at life with objective eyes, and not with the bias of yours or someone else's view of life.

The only way to see life clearly, to see life as though you were viewing it with all of the lights on, is by having Bible doctrine inside of your soul. Bible doctrine, or all of the teachings of the Bible, is the source of that light with which we can see life all around us.

Lacking Bible doctrine in your soul, means that you have no light. Try walking through life with no light. How many times will you stumble over things? Many times. With no light, you simply cannot see. And here light means all of your senses. With no senses, with nothing with which you can figure things out, then you are totally in the dark. That is life without Bible doctrine.

Job says, 'Look.'

What is obvious here? What has Job done that would make him an evil person?

To call things the way that they are, is justice. To call them otherwise, is injustice. To look at the facts of a situation, is objective. To ignore the facts and pursue your own conclusions, is subjective due to your own agenda and desired outcome.

Hold the woman under the water and if she drowns, then she must not be a witch!

Truth does not take life to such extremes.

Self-righteousness takes life to absurd extremes.

Job can see the plain facts here. Job knows his own personality and nature. He confessed on a regular basis for himself and his family. He followed the proper confession offering rituals. We have already studied that.

Job was in fellowship far more often than most. Job has the ability to discern the difference between right and wrong, sin and evil, blessing and calamity. His life of perhaps a hundred years, is proof of how he thinks and conducts his life.

His one outburst of anger and wishes for non-existence, do not cancel out his entire life. And even though Job complained about his discomfort, he never once cursed or complained about God, neither did he blame Him.

If he had been a complainer and sinner throughout his life, then that would be different, and Eliphaz's conclusions would be well founded, but Job has lived an exemplary life. There is no basis for concluding that Job was an evil man, and that his suffering was brought on because of his wickedness.

Though we are studying Job's suffering, we are also studying the way self-righteous people look at life. How truth can be known but applied incorrectly to life, primarily because those applying it have ulterior motives of their own, which they prefer, rather than Gods intentions.

Truth is out in the open. Truth is obvious. Truth is never hidden and it never has deceitful intentions, or hidden agendas.

With Bible doctrine in the soul, which gets into your soul by learning it and applying it correctly, then truth makes decision making much easier, and understanding of life more comprehensible.

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