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Job 11 – (1) Zophar Speaks: “You Deserve Worse”
Zophar answered Job – He implies that Job needs to be answered and judged right. That his babble shouldn’t silence men, and that he should be shamed for mocking. He claims that Job thinks his doctrine is pure and he is clean in the sight of God. Zophar says, Oh, that God would speak and open His lips in wisdom to you. God is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of Job less than Job’s guilt deserves. Then he…
Job 10 – Job’s Plea to God
He loathed his life, and freely complained. He is bitter in his soul, he begs God not to condemn him, and asked to know why God contends against him. Does it seem good to God to oppress the work of His hands? Job said that God knew that he wasn’t guilty, and he didn’t have anyone to deliver him out of God’s hand. God’s hands fashioned and made him, and now He destroyed Job. Job is like clay and asked…
Sibbes on Confession of Sin
Tomorrow we’ll be considering Daniel’s confession of sin in Daniel 9:1-19. I want to be clear at the outset, confession of sin can’t save us. That said, one aspect of how God saves His people is by pricking their conscience and making them feel the weight of and conviction for their sin. Our work of confession doesn’t save us or anyone else, but God’s reconciling His people to Himself through Jesus Christ bears the fruit of confession. Salvation and forgiveness of sin is…
Job 9 – Job Replies to Bildad: “There Is No Judge/Umpire/Arbiter”
Job said: I know it’s so. How can man be right before God? If one wished to contend with him, he couldn’t answer once in a 1,000 times. One hasn’t succeeded who has hardened himself against God. God rules the mountains, the earth, the sun, stars, the heavens, the seas, the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and chambers of the south. God does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number. He passes by Job and he didn’t see…
Job 8 – (1) Bildad’s False Accusation: “Job’s Suffering Is Because of His Godlessness”
Bildad spoke – How long will Job say these things and the words of his mouth act as a great wind. He accuses Job of saying that God distorts justice. He moves forward to say that his kids died because of their sin, and that if Job is pure and righteous then God will restore his station in life, and even have more. He exhorts Job to consider wisdom from the past. He accuses Job of forgetting God, so like…
Job 7 – Job Responds to Eliphaz Part 2: “My Life Has No Hope”
Job continues in this chapter – Man has a hard service on earth and his days are like a slave. He is given months of emptiness, nights of misery. He tosses and turns in his sleep. He is clothed with worms and dirt. His days are swifter than a sewer’s needle, and comes to an end without hope. Life is a breath, he believes he will never see good again. As a cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down…
Job 6 – Job Responds to Eliphaz Part 1: “My Complaint Is Just”
If my calamity was laid in the balance, it would be heavier than the sand of the sea. He admits his words have been rash. The arrows of the Almighty are in him. His spirit drinks their poison. The terrors of God are against him. Food is loathsome to him. He begs for his request that God would fulfill his hope that God would loose his hand and crush him and cut him off. This would be a comfort to…
Job 5 – (1) Eliphaz’ Thoughts Part 2: “The Innocent Prosper”
Is there anyone who will answer Job. Vexation kills the fool, jealousy slays the simple. The fool takes root, his children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and no one to deliver them. The hungry eat his harvest, and the thirsty pant after wealth. Afflication doesn’t come from the dust, nor trouble from the ground. Man is born for trouble as the sparks fly upward. Eliphaz would seek and commit his cause to God who is…
Job 4 – (1) Eliphaz’ Thoughts Part 1: “The Innocent Prosper”
Eliphaz answered – If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Who can keep from speaking? Job had instructed many, and strengthened the weak. His words upheld the stumbling and strengthened weak knees. But he says now it (stumbling and weakness) comes to Job and he is impatient, it touches him and he’s dismayed. He implies that Job isn’t putting his confidence in the fear of God. He tells Job that the innocent never perished, the upright…
Job 3 – Job Laments His Birth
He cursed the day of his birth. Let that day perish, be darkness, gloom and darkness claim it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the hear, let that night be barren, let no joyful cry enter it. Curse the day. Let it hope for light and have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning. All because it did not shut the doors of his mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from Job’s eyes. Why did I not die at…