You Can't Say That
Because You Can't Know It Only God Does! Job 11:1-20 “Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him, if you put awaye the sin that is in your hand and allow no evilf to dwell in your tent, then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firmi and without fear. You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by". (Job 11:13-16) This was good advice but miss spoken, because he had no way of knowing what he was talking about. Only God knows what is in the heart of man. Zophar, a friend of Job’s, was attempting to give wise and sound advice to Job in his attempt to help. He does start out pretty good, he says, “Can you fathom the mysteries of God?” Zophar asked him (Job 11:7). “They are higher than the heavens above” (v. 8). Who can argue with that? But then he kind of runs himself into the ditch,he tries to guess what was in Jobs heart Job’s heart, he had just arrived and how could he have any idea of what he was ...