When You Think You Are Helping, Where Are You?
- より子 逆瀬川
- May 11
- 1 min read
Job Chapter 26
Job responds.
“How you have helped the powerless!”
“What wonderful advice you have given!”
Job speaks with irony.
His friends have been speaking
with the intention of helping.
Right words.
Theologically well-ordered explanations.
But those words alone
cannot sustain Job.
Job says,
“How much you have helped.”
There is deep irony
in these words.
People often pour out
right words
with the intention of helping.
But in the midst of suffering,
those words may only add to the pain.
Even when words are true,
they do not always support a person.
When you think you are helping,
where are you?
Are you standing
within your own righteousness?
Or are you standing
before God
together with the other person?
Job speaks ironically
about his friends’ “help.”
There were true words.
Yet they did not become support.
God is still silent.
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