Do you think this is in accordance with justice?
Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You?
What benefit will I have, more than if I had sinned? (vv. 2-3)

This chapter reveals Job’s struggles and explains why God has allowed these disasters to befall him. It emphasises that these events are not punishments but lessons. Elihu poses similar questions to the readers.

As Christians, we often fall into the delusion that our actions for God entitle us to rewards. When faced with undesired outcomes, we swiftly blame God and accuse Him of injustice. In truth, we are like wayward children. However, God understands our limited knowledge and lack of understanding.

If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your wrongdoings are many, what do you do to Him?
If you are righteous, what do you give to Him,
Or what does He receive from your hand?
Your wickedness is for a man like yourself,
And your righteousness is for a son of man. (vv. 6-8)

In some cases, a gentle reminder is enough to show someone that they are nothing. When hardship strikes, they quickly turn to God and pray for mercy. God gives them a humble heart to repent and helps them follow Him wholeheartedly. However, more severe trials are sometimes necessary for headstrong children who believe they are greater than their Father.

Through the Book of Job, we learn about true righteousness. God’s righteousness is not defined by the law—He is the law. His law is unchangeable, for God does not change as people do. Yet His law is not static, because God is the living God who reigns forever. Whatever proceeds from His mouth becomes law.

To understand God’s law, one must first understand why God created the world. Only God can establish the law and fulfill it. The law’s requirements are not merely external actions, but a deep understanding of its purpose. There is only one who can truly fulfill the law—Jesus Christ—for the law was made for the Kingdom of God through Him.

Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. (Matthew 5:17)

Theologians and ministers often interpret the Bible chronologically, overlooking the fact that the world was made to be destroyed and renewed. They fail to understand that Revelation was planned before Genesis. They frequently cite those they call “great thinkers” and quote Greek philosophers who never knew God. They also reference Luther and Calvin, sometimes inventing stories around them. Luther and Calvin were given specific insights necessary for the Reformation, but we now begin to see the errors and limitations they carried.

The Book of Job may be the most important book for a third Reformation. True righteousness belongs to God alone. Being God is righteousness. To be righteous, we must have the Holy Spirit and become one with God. What people often define as perfect law-keeping is not sufficient to fulfill the law. It seems many theologians and ministers do not understand the difference between keeping the law and fulfilling it.

If Christ had to keep the law to fulfill it merely to meet the conditions of the Old Testament as a representative of humanity, then our righteousness would still be earthly and bound to the flesh. A single violation of the law would condemn us to hell—that is the essence of the Old Testament. But our righteousness must be greater than that. It must be unchangeable and eternal.

To be eternally righteous, our sins must be forgiven, and our status must be transformed from slaves to children of God. Covenant theologians insist that we will keep the law perfectly forever in the Kingdom of God, implying that we will still be bound to the written code. But that is not the Kingdom God has promised us.

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a NEW covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.” (Jeremiah 31:31-34)