12. Job's New Walk: Job 42

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12. Job's New Walk Job 42
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Job 11-5

• He was "blameless and upright, one who feared God
  and turned away from evil."
• He had an ideal family and all the wealth that he
  could desire.
• He did obsess a little about his children's
  spiritual state, but that is not really
  "abnormal."

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Job 1.6-12

• The Heavenly Scene
• "Have you considered my servant Job?"
• ". . . he will curse you to your face."

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Job 1.14a

• "a messenger came to Job and said . . . ."

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Job 1.16

• "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up
  the sheep and the servants, and consumed them"

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Job 1.18-9

• ". . . a great wind came across the desert,
  struck the four corners of the house, and it fell
  on the young people, and they are DEAD . . . ."

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Job 1.21

• "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked
  shall I return there Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has
  taken away blessed be the name of Yahweh."

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Job 2.7

• ". . . the satan . . . inflicted loathsome sores
  on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of
  his head."

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Job 210

• ". . . shall we receive the good at the hand of
  God, and not receive the bad?"

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Job 2.11-13

• "Job's three friends . . . met together to go and
  console and comfort him . . . . they raised their
  voices and wept aloud . . . . sat with him on the
  ground seven days and nights . . . ."

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A New Walk with God 42.1-2

• Then Job answered and said to Yahweh.

• "I know that you can do all things, and that no
  purpose of yours can be thwarted."

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A New Walk with God 42.3

• "Therefore I have uttered what I did not
  understand, things too wonderful for me, which I
  did not know."

• "Who is this that hides counsel without
  knowledge?"

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Things too Wonder?

• 933 "Would that there were an umpire between us,
  who might lay his hand on us both.
• 1619 "Even now, in fact, my witness is in
  heaven, and he that advocates for me is on high.
• 1925 "For I know that my Redeemer lives, and
  that at the last will stand upon earth.

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A New Walk with God 42.4-5

• "Hear, and I will speak I will question you, and
  you declare to me."

• "I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
  but now my eye sees you"

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A New Walk with God 42.6

• "therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust
  and ashes."

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A New Walk with God 42.6

• Better
• "therefore I renounce and change my mind of dust
  and ashes."

• Traditional Rendering (NRSV)
• "therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust
  and ashes."

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A New Walk with Friends 42.7

• "My wrath is kindled against you and against your
  two friends for you have not spoken of me what
  is right, as my servant Job has. . . ."

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A New Walk with Friends 42.7

• Better
• "My wrath is kindled against you and against your
  two friends for you have not spoken to me
  correctly, as my servant Job has. . . ."

• Traditional Rendering (NRSV)
• "My wrath is kindled against you and against your
  two friends for you have not spoken of me what
  is right, as my servant Job has. . . ."

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A New Walk with Friends 42.8

• ". . . Now therefore take seven bulls and seven
  rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for
  yourselves a burnt offering and my servant Job
  shall pray (intercede) for you, for I will accept
  his prayer (lift up his face) not to deal with
  you according to your folly for you have not
  spoken to me correctly, as my servant Job has
  done."

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A New Walk with Friends 42.9

• So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite
  and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the
  Yahweh had told them and the Yahweh accepted
  Job's prayer (lifted up Job's face).

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A New Walk with Society 42.10-11

• And the Yahweh restored the fortunes of Job when
  he had prayed (interceded) for his friends and
  the Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had
  before.

• Then there came to him all his brothers and
  sisters and all who had known him before, and
  they ate bread with him in his house they showed
  him sympathy and comforted him for all the
  calamity that Yahweh had brought upon him and
  each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold
  ring.

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A New Walk with Society 42.11

• Then there came to him all his brothers and
  sisters and all who had known him before . . .
  with him in his house
• . . . and they ate bread with him
• . . . they showed him sympathy and comforted him
  for all the tragedy that Yahweh had brought on
  him
• . . . and each of them gave him a piece of money
  and a gold ring.

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A New Walk with Society 42.11

• "For justice to occur, it is necessary for the
  community to take responsibility for the work of
  justice. Job regains double his material goods at
  the end, partly because the community brings
  gifts to celebrate and collaborate with God's
  restorative justice." (Tina Pippin)

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Blessing a New Walk 42.12-13

• He also had seven sons and three daughters.

• Yahweh blessed the latter days of Job more than
  his beginning and he had fourteen thousand
  sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of
  oxen, and a thousand donkeys.

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Blessing a New Walk 42.14-15

• He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah,
  and the third Keren-happuch. In all the land
  there were no women so beautiful as Job's
  daughters and their father gave them an
  inheritance along with their brothers.

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Blessing a New Walk 42.16-17

• After this Job lived one hundred and forty years,
  and saw his children, and his children's
  children, four generations. And Job died, old and
  full of days.

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