In Job, chapter nine, verse two, the servant of God acknowledged that he could not be perfectly righteous before God. He understood that he inclined toward self and sin and that he was not faultless in the sight of God, as in chapter seven, verse twenty-one. Yet, with all his heart and soul, he had resisted evil and turned from it in Job one, verses one and eight, then chapter two, verse three, accordingly. The servant of God was confident he had not sinned and did not deserve such suffering. In chapter six, verse twenty-four, and chapter seven, verse twenty provides evidence of that.
However, Job did complain that God had punished him without cause in verses sixteen through twenty. Yet, his faith held firm and persisted in calling upon God and not cursing God as Satan predicted he would in the eleventh of chapter one and fifth verse of chapter two. Although he spoke words he later would regret, as in verses seventeen and twenty, twenty-two to twenty-three, thirty to thirty-one, and chapter forty-two, verses three through six.
In this answer, Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God when he denied himself to be a hypocrite. For how should man be just with God? Before Him, Job pleaded guilty to sins more than could be counted, and if God should contend with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand thoughts, words, and actions of his life. Therefore, he deserved worse than all his present sufferings. When Job mentions the wisdom and power of God, then forgets his complaints. We are unfit to judge God’s proceedings because we never know what he does or designs. God acts with the power which no creature can resist. Those who think they have enough strength to help others will not help themselves against it.