Job 7-9

It took me a little more than 8 minutes to read this passage. Job's next friend, Bildad, speaks up offering his justification for God's actions. He too is overwhelmed with righteous indignation to the point that he forgets all he knows about Job's life of faithfulness. I'm sure that would be my first response as well. I've prayed since my youth that God is good. What happened to Job is bad; therefore he must have seen something in Job's life, and the lives of his children as Bildad points out, the led God to enact his judgement right now. But Bildad misunderstood the words of Job. Job was not accusing God of wrongdoing, but desiring to understand the fruit of such suffering. I know that I need to be slow in evaluating a situation as Bildad, or else I may fall into the same trap.
Stuart