When you are not comforted, where are you?
- より子 逆瀬川
- Apr 29
- 1 min read
Job Chapter 16
Job speaks.
“You are all miserable comforters.”
“Your words of comfort are empty.”
Job rejects
his friends’ words.
There are words.
Words of comfort.
Words that are right.
Yet they do not reach.
People speak to those who suffer.
They want to support.
They want to help.
Yet those words
can become heavy.
Comfort
does not become comfort.
Why do right words
not reach?
It may not be
a problem of the words themselves.
It may be a matter
of where the speaker is speaking from.
Words spoken
from one’s own righteousness
do not reach
those in suffering.
When you are not comforted,
where are you?
Do you remain
in human words?
Or do you stand before God,
in the place
where words do not reach?
Job was not comforted.
There were words.
Yet they did not reach.
When right words do not reach,
what is being questioned
may not be the words,
but the place
from which they are spoken.
God was still silent.
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