My foot has held on to His path;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
I have not failed the command of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
But He is unique, and who can make Him turn?
Whatever His soul desires, He does it. (vv.11-13)

Job continues to claim that he is righteous while asserting that God is not. He acknowledges that God can do whatever He wants, yet Job does not perceive God as just. There are times in our lives when we feel mistreated by God, leading us to complain more than to thank Him. Our perspectives and understandings are often limited and narrow. Despite this, we sometimes boast of our knowledge, comparing ourselves favorably to others and even passing judgment on God.

God, who is patient and merciful, understands the depths of our hearts. He listens to all our complaints and unjust accusations against Him. Through His words and the trials He places before us, He teaches us His ways, prompting us to confess our sins and ignorance.

Job and his friends inhabit a one- or two-dimensional world, while God resides in a realm vastly beyond our comprehension.

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11)

Being God is righteousness. Anyone who is united with Him is righteous because of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives us faith in God and His promise of the Saviour. However, theologians deny this. They say that our righteousness is from works. There is only one kind of righteousness. And it is not from the law. The law will be fulfilled and will be no more.

Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, until all is accomplished! Therefore, whoever nullifies one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you that unless your righteousness far surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:17-20)

If our righteousness comes from the law, it disappears the moment we break the law. Like Adam and Eve, we would be cast out. But we are no longer slaves—we are children of God because we have been reborn. We uphold the law, yet we are no longer enslaved by it. My righteousness comes from being one with God. I do not see myself as equal to God, but God has given all authority to the Son. As the Church, we are one body with Christ. Therefore, we confess:

… whatever things were gain to me, these things I have counted as loss because of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. (Philippians 3:7-11)