Job never said he was entirely innocent. The nature of his argument was that to the best of his ability, his pursuit through life was to live according to his conscience toward God. He knew that his purpose was unwavering in serving the Lord, and then sudden unexplainable catastrophe had come upon him. Job never said he was inherently perfect, but his intentions were steadfast. He said he was anything but a hypocrite, for both he and the Lord knew what he had been thinking. Later he will be vindicated along that line.

After plotting and conspiring against Daniel, the other two presidents and the 120 princes assembled together and suddenly broached the suggestion of a royal statute to the king. Of course to the king the suggestion seemed very complimentary, for it ostensibly showed how much they appreciated and liked him as a leader. Darius was already reorganizing, and now the religious decree would further consolidate the empire. For 30 days, no one in the empire was to heed or give credence to “any God or man” but the king and his god. There was to be no diversity of thought. How flattering to the king! Darius did not see that the real purpose was to entrap Daniel.