Job 14:1-3, “MAN WHO IS BORN OF WOMAN IS OF FEW DAYS AND FULL OF TROUBLE. He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue. AND DO YOU OPEN YOUR EYES ON SUCH A ONE , AND BRING ME TO JUDGMENT WITH YOURSELF?
Job is saying, man is sinful from his youth; not one can be found that is perfect! Will YOU judge me according to my imperfection?
Psa 51:5, Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
Job 14:4, WHO CAN BRING A CLEAN THING OUT OF AN UNCLEAN? NO ONE!
Rom 5:17, FOR IF BY THE ONE MAN’S OFFENSE (Adam) death reigned through the one, much more THOSE WHO RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE AND OF THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL REIGN IN LIFE THROUGH THE ONE, JESUS CHRIST.
WHO CAN MAKE MAN CLEAN? ONLY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST ARE WE MADE CLEAN; IT’S A GIFT FROM GOD FOR HE SHED HIS OWN BLOOD TO COVER OUR SINS!
Eph 1:7-8, IN HIM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE WHICH HE MADE TO ABOUND TOWARD US IN ALL WISDOM AND PRUDENCE,
Job 14:7, 10, “FOR THERE IS HOPE FOR A TREE, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease…. BUT MAN DIES AND IS LAID AWAY; INDEED HE BREATHES HIS LAST AND WHERE IS HE?
Remember, Job is speaking in complete agony, not just physical but also in his heart and mind! He appears to say, “A TREE HAS MORE HOPE OF COMING BACK TO LIFE THAN MAN?” YET, job says this!
Job 19:25-27, For I know that MY REDEEMER LIVES, And He shall stand at last on the earth; AND AFTER MY SKIN IS DESTROYED, THIS I KNOW, THAT IN MY FLESH I SHALL SEE GOD, WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF, AND MY EYES SHALL BEHOLD, AND NOT ANOTHER. HOW MY HEART YEARNS WITHIN ME!
In desperation a man or woman may contradict themselves, because they are grieving much more than they are thinking! JOB KNOWS THAT HIS REDEEMER LIVES AND WITH HIS EYES HE SHALL SEE JESUS STANDING ON THE EARTH! DO YOU KNOW THIS?