DAILY BREAD READING (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries)
APRIL 29, 2026
READ: Job 19:5-12
MEMORY VERSE
“God has avenged me and drawn His net around me.” Job 19:5-12
BACKGROUND
After the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel lost his faith. “Where were you, God of kindness?” he asked, recalling the evil he and others suffered. “In my childhood I did not expect much from human beings. But I expected everything from you.”
And yet, Wiesel realized later that his faith had never really left him. “It is because I believed in God that I was angry at God,” he told a journalist, “and still am.” You don’t get angry at someone you don’t believe exists.
We might feel uncomfortable expressing anger at God, but biblical characters did. “You deceived me, Lord,” the prophet Jeremiah cried (20:7). “Will you forget me forever?” David wrote (Psalm 13:1). “God has wronged me,” Job said (19:6).
Unaware of Satan’s role in his misfortune, Job accused God of being cruel (10:3) and even subpoenaed Him to court (31:35)! While Job later discovered that his understanding was limited (42:3), it’s important to note God never rebukes his feelings.
Despite his questions, Elie Wiesel prayed, “Let us make up. It is unbearable to be divorced from you so long.”
We too might be angry at God for not limiting the suffering in our world, but our expressing it to Him can become prayer in disguise—keeping us close to the God who wants us to bring not just our praise but our anger to Him too.
Sheridan Voysey
INSIGHT
God has “set darkness upon [his] paths” (v. 8 esv), suggesting not mere inconvenience but the removal of light itself, a symbol of life and order.
He describes himself as a besieged city: God’s “troops” advance together, building “a siege ramp” against him (v. 12), implying a military approach.
Job refuses to sanitize his language.
He dares to depict God as his attacker, one who “tears [him] down” and “uproots [his] hope like a tree” (v. 10). This isn’t blasphemy but rather the brutal honesty of a sufferer. His speech can remind us today that we can bring both our praise and our honest anger to God in prayer.
J.R. Hudberg
APPLICATION
When have you felt angry at God? How can Job’s story help us express and keep a clear perspective?
PR’s (Pastor Richard) RE-EMPHASIS (From Today’s Post)
“We too might be angry at God for not limiting the suffering in our world, but our expressing it to Him can become prayer in disguise …we can bring both our praise and our honest anger to God in prayer.”
PR’s TAKE
“How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O LORD my God…” Psalm 13:1-2
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of (Your people). Psalm 22:1-3
PRAYER
“Dear God, I’m angry at the suffering in this world, but choose to trust You.”
TODAY’S HYMN/WORSHIP/PRAISE/GOSPEL SONG
“JUST AS I AM”
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that thou bidd’st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,
To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, though tossed about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings and fears within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, thou wilt receive,
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve;
Because Thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
