Day 145: March 9, 2026 – Job 11-14 and Romans 9-10

There is nothing new in Job’s defense of himself, and nothing new in the accusations of his friends. Job agrees with his friends that it is God who is causing this to happen, but disagrees with them that it is a result of Job’s wrongdoings that God is making this happen. Job portrays God as a bit more capricious than his friends do. Job even states that God makes calamity fall on both the just and the unjust, very similar to how in Matthew Jesus states that the rain falls on both the righteous and the unrighteous. In Romans we see that we are all unrighteous and so we all deserve to be condemned. Thanks be to God that we don’t get what we deserve!