Even Now - Job 16:19-21
Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights! My friends scoff at me as I weep before God. I wish that someone might argue for a man with God just as anyone would for a friend. Job 16:19-21 His Heartfelt Cry Believers pray for each other. We intercede. We get between the person we are praying for and the Lord and argue for that person! Job was a man of tragedy for sure. His family got wiped out, his wife became embittered, all of his property was stolen or destroyed, and he was struck with a painful disease. But that’s not what Job dwells on. Rather, his narrative poem zooms in on Job’s relationships with his friends. So, it seems we can add another grief to the list. For not only did his friends misinterpret what happened to Job, adding unmercifully to his agony, they did not intercede for him. And they should have. I’m struck by his heart felt cry, “I wish that someone would argue for a man with God…” And notice that he says that after he declares that God is h