Why aren’t times of judgment kept by the Almighty, why don’t those who know him never see his days? Some seize flocks, drive away the donkey of orphans, take from the widow, and they thrust the poor off the road. The poor hide themselves, act like wild donkeys going out to their toil, seeking game…
Job answered, his complaint is bitter, his hand heavy. Job longs to come before God and lay his case before him with arguments. He longs for God to answer and understand what he says. He trust that God would pay attention. He trusts that an upright man could argue with God and Job would be…
Eliphaz said – “Can a man be profitable to God? Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you? Isn’t your evil abundant? There is no end to your inquiries. You have exacted pledges for nothing and taken clothing. You haven’t given water to the weary, bread…
Job answered and said to Zophar to let Job’s words be Zophar’s comfort, but after he’s spoken “mock on” (v. 3). Job’s complaint isn’t against man. He asks Zophar to look at him and be appalled with hand over mouth. When he remembers his dismay his flesh shudders. Why do the wicked live to old…
Zophar the Naamathite answered and said; therefore his thoughts answer him because of his haste. He feels insulted by Job and out of Zophar’s understanding a spirit answers him. He asks Job if he knows that from the beginning that man was placed on earth that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…