" . . . Would you [Job] condemn Me [God] that you may be justified?"
Fallen sinners, outside of Christ, always do exactly what we read here (above). They "condemn" God in all kinds of ways, in order to seek to "justify" themselves--pretending that they are better than the Lord. Of course, God understood Job's heart, and the Lord knew, in reality, that Job really *did* find his justification in Christ, and not in himself. (See Job 19:25-27 as evidence of this.)
All of us churchmen should beware of the fact that whenever we are uncomfortable or inconvenienced--our temptation, just as it was with Job, is to "condemn" God, and "justify" ourselves. Let us rather see things as they really *are*, in Christ; and recognize that the Lord is always right, just, holy, gracious, merciful, and loving.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Only man is in love with his own bane [misery], and fights for those lusts that fight against his soul."
--Richard Sibbes, in, "The Soul's Conflict with Itself"]
