So things are going pretty bad for Job. Luckily he has some friends who decide to come and have a chat with him about his predicament. I’m so glad…….that I don’t have friends like these two !
Rather than trying to raise his spirits, they just spend their time telling him to confess to what he’s done wrong. After all if he had been a good boy, none of the suffering he is going through would have happened, surely.
Even under the extra ‘pressure’ of his friends ‘encouragement’, Job does not moan. He simply wants the answer to why all this pain is being heaped on him. If God will tell him what he has done then he will say, “OK. It’s a fair cop”
But no information is forthcoming.
In reading these Chapters, I have picked out 2 verses.
During this interrogation by his friends and his not understanding what is happening, Job still knows the core of his understanding of God when he says in Chapter 12 v 13. “True wisdom and real power belong to God; from him we learn how to live, and also what to live for.” He acknowledges that God is over everything, without exception.
He also voices one of the fundamental things in God’s dealings with us in Chapter 14 v 16, “You’ll watch over every step I take, but you won’t keep track of my missteps.”
peterjfield 
The scary thing is that it’s not always that Job’s friends believe completely the wrong things, but that they don’t know when to keep their mouths shut. Now, for me at least, that’s a challenge!