Job continues, scoffing at the words the three men have spoken.
God may kill me for it, but I’m going to tell him what I think. And this is my hope, that I am not a godless man. His majesty does terrify me; I am overwhelmed by fear when I think of his awesome power. Nevertheless, if he summons me to speak, this is what I will say with confidence: “Tell me, what have I done wrong? Show me my rebellion and my sin.” I have prepared my defense. I repeat, I am not a godless man. “I will be proved innocent.”
What the reader knows (based on chapter 1), and Job does not, is that this awesome God is not really out to prove Job innocent, but to prove him faithful, even in the most difficult of circumstances.
