Job's first task of being God for. day is to bring down the proud and the wicked in an unleashed display of his anger, humiliating them just by looking at them. Can Job perform this simple function, which he had accused God of ignoring? (Job 21:29-31; Job 24:1-17). "God ironically suggested He turn over the responsibility to Job to see if he could fulfill it" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 771). There is. great lesson here for us when we are tempted to complain. If we complain that God isn't moving fast enough in the world and dealing with the wicked, we need to remind ourselves that we are not stopping such wickedness ourselves. In fact we are powerless to do really anything permanent about the evil in this world.

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