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“Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?” (Job 4:7).
Job had three friends, and all three of them tried to be a help to Job, when all these things happened to him. However, they did not understand what God was doing, and they told Job that he must be a wicked man, for God to have allowed all these troubles in his life. Our verse today was said to him by one of his friends. Sadly, they did not realize that God sometimes allows trouble in the lives of good people. It is not necessarily punishment, but it is to teach them something. There are many reasons why God may allow trouble in our lives, and when it happens, we should go to Him and ask Him why He allowed it.
Job’s friends were no real help to him, even though they sometimes said things that were true. But they jumped to conclusions and falsely accused Job.
This is a good lesson to us, for if someone is in trouble, let us first of all show some sympathy, and not jump to a conclusion as to why it happened.
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