Job (Page 2)

Job (Page 2)

Job 19 – Job Answers Bildad: “My Redeemer Lives”

Answering Bildad Job answered Bildad saying: How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? 10 times you’ve cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me. Job admits that if it’s true that he erred it remains with himself. Eliphaz, Zophar, and Bildad were “magnifying” themselves against Job, and using his terrible condition/disgrace to argue against him. God Has Done This Know that God has put him in the wrong and closed his net…

Job 18 – (2) Bildad Speaks: “God Punishes the Wicked”

Bildad answered Job – How long will you hunt for words? Consider, then we’ll speak. Are we stupid like cattle in your sight? Shall the earth be forsaken for you? The light of the wicked is put out, his steps are shortened, and his schemes throw him down. He’s cast into a a trap by his own feet. Terrors fight him on every side. His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling. It consumes the parts of his…

Job 17 – Job Replies to All 3 *Friends* Part 2: Where Then Is My Hope?

Job believed his spirit was broken that death was near. He keeps looking at the way his mockers are provoking him. He asks who will lay down a pledge (surety/redeem) for him with God. God closed his friends’ hearts to understanding, but he believes God won’t let them triumph. God made Job a byword (reproach or scorn) of the peoples and he’s like someone men spit on. His eyes grew dim and he is like a shadow. The upright are…

Job 16 – Job Replies to All 3 *Friends* Part 1: “Miserable Comforters Are You”

Job answered: He’d heard many things, his friends are miserable comforters. He counters saying that they are windbags. What provokes them to answer? He could speak as they do if they were in his place. He’d join and shake his head at them He could strengthen them with his mouth, and intensify their pain with the “comfort” of his mouth. God has worn him out making his company empty. God has shriveled him up, his condition testifies to his face, “God has torn me…

Job 15 – (2) Eliphaz Falsely Accuses: “Job Does Not Fear God”

Eliphaz answered – he accuses Job of being a windbag, arguing in unprofitable talk, words that do no good. He accuses that Job is doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God, and that Job’s guilt teaches his mouth and crafty tongue. He accuses Job’s mouth as condemning him. He asks multiple questions – are you the first man born? Have you listened to God’s council? Do you limit wisdom yourself? What do you know that…

Job 14 – Job Replies to Zophar Part 3: “Death Comes Soon to All”

Man’s days are few and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers. No one can bring a clean thing out of something unclean. All are unclean. God determined man’s days, months, and the limits of life. Look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day. There’s hope for a fallen tree to sprout again. But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and…

Job 13 – Job Replies to Zophar Part 2: “Still I Will Hope in God”

His eye had seen and heard all. Again he says he knows and isn’t inferior to them. He still desires to argue his case with God. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar are whitewash with lies, and are worthless physicians. He asks that they keep silent, and to hear his argument and pleading. He asks if they would speak falsely for God, show partiality to Him. Will they be well when God searches them out? God will surely rebuke them if they…

Job 12 – Job Replies to Zophar Part 1: “The Lord Has Done This!”

Job answered – No doubt you are the people and wisdom will die with you, he has understanding as much as them. Job isn’t inferior, who doesn’t know such things. Job is a just and blameless man and yet a laughingstock to his friends; he called to God and He answered. Robbers’ homes, idolators, and those who provoke God are secure. The plants and animals will teach us – the hand of the Lord has done this: “In His hand is the…

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…