Sermon Tone Analysis

Job 4

 

\\ Job 7:17 (NKJV) 17 “What /is/ man, that You should exalt him, /That/ You should set Your heart on him, \\

            Psalm 8:1-3 (David in joy) \\ Psalms 8:1 - 3 (NKJV) 1 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent /is/ Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! 2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, \\

            Psalm 144:1-4 (David in distress)

\\ Psalms 144:1 - 4 (NKJV) 1 Blessed /be/ the Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, /And/ my fingers for battle— 2 My lovingkindness and my fortress, My high tower and my deliverer, My shield and /the One/ in whom I take refuge, Who subdues £my people under me.

3 Lord, what /is/ man, that You take knowledge of him?

/Or/ the son of man, that You are mindful of him? 4 Man is like a breath; His days /are/ like a passing shadow.

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Both in joy and distress, Job and David recognized God’s greatness.

\\ \\ Bildad speaks:

 

8:2:     Job’s words are like hot air

8:3:     God is obviously judging Job because he has sinned.

8:4:     Job’s children were killed because of their sin

8:6:     Job is not as righteous as he claims to be.

Job responds

9:1-12:            Who can stop God from doing what He wants to do, who has a right to question God?

Daniel 4:35 (NKJV) 35 All the inhabitants of the earth /are/ reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And /among/ the inhabitants of the earth.

No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, “What have You done?” \\ \\ Isaiah 43:12 - 13 (NKJV) 12 I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, And /there was/ no foreign /god/ among you; Therefore you /are/ My witnesses,” Says the Lord, “that I /am/ God. 13 Indeed before the day /was,/ I /am/ He; And /there is/ no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?”

\\ \\ Isaiah 45:9 (NKJV) 9 “Woe to him who strives with his Maker!

/Let/ the potsherd /strive/ with the potsherds of the earth!

Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’

Or shall your handiwork /say,/ ‘He has no hands’?

\\ \\ Romans 9:18 - 20 (NKJV) 18Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

19You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault?

For who has resisted His will?” 20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God?

Will the thing formed say to him who formed /it/, “Why have you made me like this?” \\                             

9:13-14:          Job says that he is not self righteous, but is powerless against God

9:20:               Job says that he cannot justify himself.

In fact, no man can justify himself, that is the work of God.