Suffering can have a great impact on someone’s thinking and here we see Job’s pain causing him to have very different view on lie and on God.

Life for Job is like slavery (v1-3) with little prospect of rest (v4-5). Life is short and meaningless (v6-10). Suffering can make us sink into depression and see life as pointless and hopeless.

There is in life, a battle between faith and feelings that can be greatly intensified during times of suffering.

Job believes his suffering is because God is paying him too much attention (v11-21). Job believes his suffering is all of God’s action; he was unaware that it was the devil actions. The devil has managed to twist Job’s thinking so that he now thinks that God is against him.

The devil’s work is always about creating suspicion in people’s minds towards the most gracious and most benevolent God that the Lord is. Are you harbouring suspicion towards God in your heart?

The answer to suspicion is by spending time in the Lord’s presence in His word and in prayer.