JOB

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JOB

• The Book of Suffering

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Overview of the book of Job
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Setting for the Story

• Uz

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The Story

• The Heavenly Challenge
• Jobs Calamities
• Satans Second Accusation
• Jobs Continuing Endurance
• Jobs Three Friends

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The Cast of Characters

• Job
• Mrs. Job
• God
• Satan
• Three Friends
• Eliphaz
• Bildad
• Zophar
• Elihu

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Job maintains his innocence

• I made a covenant with my eyes that I would not
  look on a woman to lust (311).
• I gave food and clothing to the poor and the
  widow and the orphan (3116-20).
• I did not let my own prosperity get in the way of
  my relationship with God (3124-28).

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Elihu

• 1 Then these three men ceased answering Job,
  because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 But
  the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the
  Buzite, of the family of Ram burned against Job
  his anger burned, because he justified himself
  before God. 3 And his anger burned against his
  three friends because they had found no answer,
  and yet had condemned Job.
• 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because
  they were years older than he. (Job 321-4).

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When God Finally Speaks...

• He does not give Job any answers to his questions
• He does not give Job any comfort in his situation

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Job 381-3

• Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind
  and said,
• "Who is this that darkens counsel by words
  without knowledge?
• Now gird up your loins like a man, and I will ask
  you, and you instruct Me!

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Job 384-7

• "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the
  earth?
• Tell Me, if you have understanding, who set its
  measurements, since you know?
• Or who stretched the line on it?
• On what were its bases sunk?
• Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning
  stars sang together, and all the sons of God
  shouted for joy?"

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Job 401

• Then the LORD said to Job, "Will the faultfinder
  contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves
  God answer it."

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Job 406-9

• Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm, and
  said, "Now gird up your loins like a man I will
  ask you, and you instruct Me. Will you really
  annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you
  may be justified? Or do you have an arm like God,
  And can you thunder with a voice like His?

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Job 421-2

• Then Job answered the LORD, and said, "I know
  that Thou canst do all things, And that no
  purpose of Thine can be thwarted."

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Job 425-6

• "I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear
  but now my eye sees Thee therefore I retract,
  and I repent in dust and ashes."

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Job 427

• And it came about after the LORD had spoken
  these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz
  the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you
  and against your two friends, because you have
  not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job
  has.

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Job 428-9

• Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls
  and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and
  offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My
  servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept
  him so that I may not do with you according to
  your folly, because you have not spoken of Me
  what is right, as My servant Job has.

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Lessons from Job

• God is both all-loving and all-powerful
• There are no simple answers
• Expression of grief trouble is appropriate, but
  not to pass judgment on God
• God is in control, even when it is not obvious to
  our eyes
• God has a purpose in what he allows, even if we
  do not know what it is

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Lessons from Job

• Tragedy can serve as a wake-up call
• God has not remained distant from us in our pain
• Job is about Gods condemnation

Will you really annul My judgment? Will you
condemn Me that you may be justified? (Job 408).
God was condemned in Christ.
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