Job 23:10 | KingComments | STEP | Though Job cannot find God anywhere, he knows in faith that God knows the way he is going ( ). In confidence he says that although he does not see God, God sees him. He also knows that God knows him. God knows he is upright, no matter what people may say of him. Let God try him, as is the case now. He is confident that God will do him justice. He knows for sure that he will come out of the trial as purified gold (cf. ). Job knows that he has gone the way of God ( ). He “has held fast to His path”. God has shown him the way to go and he has gone that way. It is a way that God went before Him, as it were, and on which Job followed Him step by step. He kept to His way, without deviating from it. He did not take a side-road, he did not choose another way, which would be a way of sin (cf. ). He has listened to “the command of His lips” ( ). A person can only go God’s way if he does what God says. His way and His Word belong together inseparably. He has not “departed from” the words of God, but he has “treasured” them in his heart. He has valued those words more than his necessary food [literally: prescribed portion]. Although Job did not see God, he argued in response to Eliphaz’s counsel that he had heard the word of God and hid it in his heart. Therefore, he rejects Eliphaz’s counsel to convert to God ( ), for he is convinced he is in the way of God ( ).

‏ Job 23:10

Job Points to His Righteousness

Though Job cannot find God anywhere, he knows in faith that God knows the way he is going (Job 23:10). In confidence he says that although he does not see God, God sees him. He also knows that God knows him. God knows he is upright, no matter what people may say of him. Let God try him, as is the case now. He is confident that God will do him justice. He knows for sure that he will come out of the trial as purified gold (cf. 1Pet 1:6-7).

Job knows that he has gone the way of God (Job 23:11). He “has held fast to His path”. God has shown him the way to go and he has gone that way. It is a way that God went before Him, as it were, and on which Job followed Him step by step. He kept to His way, without deviating from it. He did not take a side-road, he did not choose another way, which would be a way of sin (cf. Psa 18:21).

He has listened to “the command of His lips” (Job 23:12). A person can only go God’s way if he does what God says. His way and His Word belong together inseparably. He has not “departed from” the words of God, but he has “treasured” them in his heart. He has valued those words more than his necessary food [literally: prescribed portion].

Although Job did not see God, he argued in response to Eliphaz’s counsel that he had heard the word of God and hid it in his heart. Therefore, he rejects Eliphaz’s counsel to convert to God (Job 22:23), for he is convinced he is in the way of God (Job 23:11).