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Insult to Injury Today's Devotional Read: Job 5:–27 | Bible in a Year: Ezekiel 33–34; 1 Peter 5 Man is born trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. Job 5.7 During the Golden Age of radio, Fred Allen (1894–1956) used comedic pessimism bring smiles a generation living in the shadows of economic depression and a world at war. His sense of humor was born out of personal pain. Having lost his mother before he was , he was later estranged from his father who struggled with addictions. He once rescued a young boy from the traffic of a busy New York City street with a memorable, “What’s the matter with you, ? Don’t you want grow and have troubles?” The life of Job unfolds in such troubled realism. When his early expressions of faith eventually gave way despair, his friends multiplied his pain by adding insult injury. With good sounding arguments they insisted that if he could admit his wrongs (Job 4.7–8 and learn from God’s correction, he would find strength laugh in the face of his problems (5:22). Job’s “comforters” meant well while being so wrong (1:6–). Never could they have imagined that they would one day be invoked as examples of “With friends like that, who needs enemies?” Never could they have imagined the relief of Job praying for them, or why they would need prayer at (42.7–9). Never could they have imagined how they foreshadowed the accusers of the One who suffered so much misunderstanding become the source of our greatest joys. How have others misjudged you, and how did you feel? When have you been critical of others whose pain you didn’t understand? Father, like Job’s friends, I’m inclined assume that the troubles of others are somehow deserved. Please help me live this day in the Spirit of Your rather than in the words and thoughts of the accuser. 
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I have lots of faults, but being like Job's friends is not one of them. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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