In Job, chapter six, verse four, he recognized that his suffering is at least with God’s knowledge and permission. Job’s anguish was this: God seemed to be against him, and he did not know why. When you experience hardship while sincerely endeavoring to please God, you must not give in to the thought that God has ceased to be concerned for you. You may not know why God is allowing such things to happen, but you can (as did Job) that in the end, God Himself will strengthen and establish you forth victorious, as in Romans eight, verses thirty-five to thirty-nine, James five, verse eleven, First peter five, verse ten.
Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inward sense of God’s wrath took away all his courage and resolution. The feeling sense of the wrath of God is more difficult to bear than any outward afflictions. What did the Saviour endure in the garden and on the cross, when he bore our sins and his soul was our sacrifice to Divine justice for us? Whatever burden of affliction, in body or estate, God is pleased to lay upon us, we may well submit to it as long as he continues to us the use of our reason and the peace of our conscience. However, if either of these is disturbed, our case is very pitiful. Job reflects upon his friends for their censures. He complains he had nothing offered for relief but what was tasteless, loathsome, and burdensome.
For believers or followers of Christ, there are some things in life we go through that may seem difficult to understand. There will be situations where the children of God may experience the temptation to be upset with God and start declaring certain things that we may no longer want to continue to do in light of the circumstances.
There’s a gospel song that goes like this: “Many things about tomorrow I don’t seem to understand, but I know who holds tomorrow, and I know who holds my hand.