Job’s reasoning gets more bitter. He agrees with yesterday’s speaker that a man should be perfect before God! What a foolish thought. But he does not know how he can be more perfect than he is.
V.4 He reasons something like this “Who ever won when they argued with God?”
V.5-14 God is too powerful and too busy to listen to Job, he thinks.
V.16 Even if God would take time to listen to him, Job says that he would not believe it!
V.17 God punishes him when there is no reason for it! Not very nice to think that!
V.18 God fills him with bitterness, or so he reasons.
V.20 Even if he should consider himself perfect, then there would be something else wrong. “You can’t win,” is really what he is saying.
V.22 He says that God destroys both the perfect and the wicked alike!
V.23 That God laughs at our troubles.
V.30-31 He just could not please God no matter what he did. Aren’t we thinking along those lines sometimes?
V.32-35 He says that he would have a better chance if God were a man. Or even if there were someone who could come between them! Read what God had done about this point in 1 Timothy 2:5.