Job 10:8-12 – Job Remembers That God Lovingly Created Him

Summary

Job becomes nostalgic as he thinks about God as the loving Creator who brought him into life and sustained him through the years. Why would such a God now turn against him to destroy him?

Analysis

After outbursts of anger and direct confrontation with God in chapters 7 and 9, Job now quiets down and seems to be puzzled and hurt by what a loving God has done to him. The description of how God formed him shows God's personal involvement in the process. Job believes that he is God's creature, shaped and given life by God's own hand. Job is confused by God's strange rejection of the one God had lovingly made. What happened? What did Job do to bring about this change? Is it God who has changed? Why does a parent suddenly turn against her own flesh and blood? Why does an artist smash into pieces a favorite vase that he had once looked on with great pride? What causes profound love to turn into indifference or hostility?

It just does not make sense. Job is confused and hurt. Does God still love him or not? Did God ever love him? Will God love him again? At this point in his journey of suffering, Job cannot answer these questions with any kind of certainty.

• Job 1:1-5
  The Pious and Affluent Job Is Introduced
• Job 1:6-12
  The First Encounter between God and Satan
• Job 1:21
  God Gives and God Takes Away
• Job 2:11-13
  Job’s Well-Intentioned Friends
• Job 3
  Job Curses the Day of His Birth
• Job 4:1-5
  Easy Answers Fade When Reality Contradicts Them
• Job 4:7-8
  Those Who Sow Trouble Reap the Same
• Job 5:17-21
  Accept Suffering as the Discipline of the Almighty
• Job 6:14-27
  Job’s Rebuke of His Counselors
• Job 7:1-6
  Nights Are Too Long and a Life Is Too Short
• Job 8:8-10
  Trust the Spiritual Teachings of the Past
• Job 9:13-20
  How Can One Win an Argument with God?
• Job 9:22-24
  God Is Unjust
• Job 11:7-12
  God’s Ways Are beyond Human Understanding
• Job 13:1-12
  Do Not Lie for God
• Job 14:7-17
  If Mortals Die, Will They Live Again?
• Job 16:18-19
  My Witness Is in Heaven
• Job 19:20
  Job Escapes by the Skin of His Teeth
• Job 19:23-27
  I Know That My Redeemer Lives
• Job 28
  Only God Knows Wisdom
• Job 29:1-6
  Job Longs for the “Good Old Days”
• Job 31:35-37
  If Only I Knew the Indictment, I Would Wear It Proudly
• Job 33:13-18
  God May Be Speaking to Job through His Suffering
• Job 38:1-18
  God Finally Speaks to Job
• Job 39:1-8
  God Cares Even for the Offspring of Wild Animals
• Job 41:1-11
  Humans Are Helpless before the Ferocity of Leviathan
• Job 42:1-6
  Job Accepts His Limits and Will Not Continue to Protest
• Job 42:10
  Job Receives a Double Restitution