Biblical Studies From Job Biblical Studies From Job
Biblical Studies From Job
Biblical Studies From Job Biblical Studies From The Book Of Job
Biblical Studies From Job The Prologue Job 1 -2 & Calamities Job: His Character • Arrival of the 3 “friends” 2: 11 -13 • Their joint decision v. 11 • They had each heard about Job’s sufferings • They came to “sympathize with him and comfort him”
Biblical Studies From Job The Prologue Job 1 -2 & Calamities Job: His Character • Arrival of the 3 “friends” 2: 11 -13 • Their joint actions vv. 12 -13 • They wept and mourned with him • They sat down in silence with him for 7 days & nights • Lesson for us Ù sometimes, the best we can do to help is to sit with the
Biblical Studies From Job The Prologue Job 1 -2 & Calamities Job: His Character • Arrival of the 3 “friends” 2: 11 -13 • The sad reality about them… Though they came to comfort, they eventually stayed to condemn
Biblical Studies From Job The Book Of Job • The Prologue Job 1 -2 • The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – 42: 6 4 • The Epilogue Job 42: 7 -17 J. Sidlow Baxter “Explore The Book” Vol. 3, p. 29
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 A 3 -fold expression of grief: Ê He prefers non-existence to life vv. 1 -10 Ë He prefers death to survival vv. 11 -19 Ì He prefers the grave to suffering,
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 Ê He prefers non-existence to life vv. 1 -10 • First reaction Ù curses day of his birth v. 1 • His thoughts… “Why should one be born if his lot is to be such as I am now experiencing? ”
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 Ê He prefers non-existence to life vv. 1 -10 • Job expresses his grief, sorrow vv. 2 -10 • Let the day I was born, even the night I was conceived, perish vv. 2 -3 • Let that day be darkness…let not even
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 Ê He prefers non-existence to life vv. 1 -10 • Job expresses his grief, sorrow vv. 2 -10 • Let that day not be rewarded with the coming of dawn…the “stars at twilight” v. 9
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 Ë He prefers death to survival vv. 11 -19 • Job next reasons… “If I had to be born, then why couldn’t I have died at birth? ” v. 11 • He even laments the actual birth, nursing with his mother v. 12
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 Ë He prefers death to survival vv. 11 -19 • He continues… “For now, I would be at rest” vv. 13 -19 • I would be with the “honorable dead” vv. 14 -15 • Even the still-born, the miscarried are
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 Ë He prefers death to survival vv. 11 -19 Thus far, Job has desired that he had never been conceived, never been born, had been still-born, or had died in infancy. How would you describe such
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 Ì He prefers the grave to suffering vv. 20 -26 • Job’s “suffering” & “bitterness of soul” has him longing for death v. 20 • Such a one craves death, but cannot find it v. 21 • He digs for it like treasure, but it eludes
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 Ì He prefers the grave to suffering vv. 20 -26 • Job’s first open complaint against God v. 23 • We don’t know what he thought in the 7 prior days • “My life is hidden” Ù I don’t understand
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 • Job’s faith has taken a real “hit” • While we do not see a man who has given up, we do see a man who is searching in agony • We must be careful, sitting on “our side” of this Biblical drama, to not judge him too harshly
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 • Job’s faith has taken a real “hit” • Yet, we must remind ourselves that we cannot allow ourselves to sink to the despairing level to which Job let himself go • What do you think Job would say if he could speak to us today? 42: 3 cp.
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 • Job’s faith has taken a real “hit” • What if Job’s lament had really happened? • Yes, he would have been spared all this suffering • But, he also would never have known the joys he had experienced in life (fatherhood), personal achievements
Biblical Studies From Job The Dialogue Job 3: 1 – Job’s Opening 42: 6 Lament 3: 1 -26 • Job’s faith has taken a real “hit” • What if Job’s lament had really happened? • Thus, Job appears to be struggling with his perspective right now • He’s having a hard time seeing the good in his life because of the bad cp. 2 Cor 4: 17 -18 5: 7
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