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“Then Job answered the Lord, and said, behold I am vile…I will lay my hand upon my mouth” (Job 40:3-4).
At first, when all the trouble came upon Job, he was ready to find fault with God, for Job claimed to be a good man. However, he was taking the credit for his goodness, when it was all the work of the grace of God in his soul. But when Elihu, and then the Lord Himself, spoke to Job, he began to realize that he had no right to find fault with God. Then his reaction was to say, “I am vile.”
All this time Job was a believer; he was not a heathen. But, like some Christians, he was ready to say that his goodness came from within himself. This is wrong, for naturally we are all sinners. Any goodness in us is because God has worked in our hearts to believe. Let us remember this.
If we see unbelievers behaving in a bad way, let us remember that our own natural hearts are no better. Left to ourselves, we would behave badly too.
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