Job 27:2-6. "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter ... my lips will not speak falsehood ... I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go, my heart does not reproach me for any of my days."

Job, who has lost everything, is also suffering through his well-meaning friends telling him he must have done something to deserve his vast suffering. But Job knows he has not, and here he is taking up part of his defense by insisting that he has not been unrighteous in any way.

Job always stayed faithful to God, even through all of his trials. We can see that here as he swears to his righteousness by God and by the Almighty. But Job also calls God to task, even as acknowledging His power and might. He calls on God as the God "who has taken away my right" and the Almighty as the one who "has made my soul bitter." He never turns from God, but he does correctly say that God has allowed him to experience his tremendous pain. 

Job had such faith, he knew without a doubt that God was the only God, that He was all-powerful and almighty. Therefore, he knew he would not be suffering like this if God had not permitted it. So he calls God the one who has made him bitter, and has taken everything from him. Beautifully, though, he still praises God the as the Almighty!

It is so easy and tempting to turn from God when we are suffering. We can feel like He has given up on us, or question whether He is even there and listening to us. If our relationship with Him is not strong, we can easily lose it when we are suffering, especially when we are suffering without seeing any reason for it. But Job is an example to us of how to suffer without losing our faith, even when it seems everything, even God, is against us.

As Job shows us, we can remain faithful, yet still question God, still remind Him of our pain and suffering, and still tell Him that He has made us bitter in our loss. We nonetheless should and must, like Job, always recognize God as God. This is difficult, but if we stick with God, eventually we will come to trust Him even more, as Job did when God ultimately conversed with him in his pain.