Job strove with God. Job rebuked God. Job said God would laugh at the trial of the innocence. Job exalted his own righteousness above God's righteousness. So help me understand how he is Christ like.
This verse from 9:23 keeps coming up here. Question: have you reduced the profundity of Job's entire testimony to this one verse?
There are numerous parallels between Job and Jesus. No, Job is not Jesus, obviously. Job was a sinful man, but Jesus never sinned. Let's get that out of the way. Again, the reason God calls Job blameless is because whenever he did sin, God showed him, Job turned to God, and the sin was dealt with.
So Job is not literally Jesus, but he provides us with a type and shadow of Jesus. Job's ordeal is a foreshadowing of what Christ Jesus would suffer when He came to live here as a man. Here are a few examples:
1. Job did not do anything wrong to incur his suffering. He was innocent in that sense, just as Jesus was innocent.
2. Job was falsely accused by his friends that he had done something wrong. Jesus was also falsely accused of doing something wrong, then was brought before Pilate and eventually crucified.
3. In Job 13:24 Job cries out asking why God has hidden His face from him. Jesus cries out on the Cross, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?"
4. Job talks about others striking him on the cheek and spitting in his face (16:10 & 30:10).
5. Job believes he is on his way to death during his suffering. Jesus is actually on His way to dying during His suffering.
6. Job is ultimately saved from his suffering and prays for his friends. Jesus rose from the dead and always lives to make intercession for the saints.
Those are just a few correlations between Job and Jesus.