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The book of Job is considered wisdom literature.
It is a narrative written with poetry.
Treat it like a story but identify the language that is used in the poetry
Metaphor is a figure of speech in which the writer makes an implied comparison between two phenomena
Simile is a figure of speech in which the writer compares two phenomena, using the explicit formula like or as.
Personification A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to something nonhuman, such as animals, objects, or abstract qualities
Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which a writer uses conscious exaggeration for the sake of effect, usually emotional effect.
End of chapter two Job’s family, property, and health are gone.
His wife tells him to curse God and die.
He responded by saying
His three friends heard about his calamity and came to mourn with him.
Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar.
Job chapter three
Job tells his misery and despair.
He opens up to them after 7 days of silence.
Here in their conversations is the use of poetic language.
I will point some out along the way.
He wishes he had never been born.
He wished that it was blotted out.
Look at the use of the poetry to describe this
In verse 7, He also uses the phrase “that night be barren” and “no joyful shout”
He wishes that he had been stillborn
Also look at verse Job 3.16 “16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light?”
He wonders why life is given to those who are miserable
Job chapter four
Eliphaz’s theory in regard to Job’s suffering.
Practice what you preach (4:1–6): Job has encouraged the weak in the past, and Eliphaz rebukes him for not heeding his own advice now.
B. Does the innocent person perish?
(4:7–11): Eliphaz makes the case that the Lord does not allow trouble to befall the innocent, implying that Job must be sinning.
Those who pass rash and uncharitable censures upon their brethren, do Satan’s work.
We should be careful not to add affliction to saints who are already in grief, unless we are certain we have a God-given message to deliver.
C. It came in a vision at night (4:12–17): Eliphaz claims to have received his knowledge from a spirit in the middle of the night!
There are certain dogmatists who have to be listened to because they have had some ONE remarkable experience, and everyone else’s case is similar to their own.
The best and truest comfort is from God’s Word.
Rom.
15:4 “4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
D. Alive in the morning, dead by evening (4:18–21): Eliphaz claims that humans cannot be trusted; they are frail and die in ignorance.
Job chapter five
E. The godless are born to grief (5:1–7): Again Job is said to be suffering for his sin.
F. Present your case to God (5:8–16): Eliphaz urges Job to bring his case before God, who is able to do anything.
G. Don’t despise God’s discipline (5:17–27): Eliphaz tells Job to trust that God will heal and protect him once he has punished him.
Job chapter six
Job’s answer to Eliphaz.
His appeal for pity.
Don’t I have a right to complain?
(6:1–7): Job argues that the greatness of his sorrow gives him a right to complain (to tell and let something be known).
Notice the figurative language
B. I wish that God would kill me (6:8–13): Though Job takes comfort in having never denied God’s word, he still wishes to die.
C.
You are unreliable (6:14–21): Job accuses his friend of being as unreliable as a brook that overflows in the spring and dries up in the heat.
D. Show me where I am wrong (6:22–24): Job challenges his critic Eliphaz to show him where he is guilty.
E. Stop assuming my guilt (6:25–30): With a series of questions Job maintains his innocence and rebukes his friends for assuming that he is guilty.
Conclusion: No one can judge another justly without much prayer for divine guidance.
Affliction does not necessarily prove one to be a hypocrite or a wicked man.
Job chapter seven
F. Life is long and hard (7:1–5): Job is enduring his miserable life like a worker longing for the day to end.
G. Life is but a breath (7:6–10): Job describes life as being like a fleeting breath, for all people die and never return.
H.
Why have you made me your target?
(7:11–21): Job complains that God has terrified him with nightmares and has made him his target.
He asks why God should go to all this trouble for no apparent reason and for such an insignificant person.
Conclusion: We should not doubt the goodness of God when His face seems for a time to be hidden from us.
Job chapter eight
Contents: Bildad’s theory of Job’s affliction.
A. Your words are a blustering wind (8:1–7): Bildad tells Job that he is being senseless—if he confesses his sins, he will be restored.
B. The godless will die (8:8–19): Bildad tells Job to ask the former generation and learn that those without God wither and die like a plant without water.
C. God rewards the righteous (8:20–22): Bildad advises Job to repent and be restored.
Conclusion: It is not just or charitable to argue that merely because one is in deep affliction, he is therefore a hypocrite.
Let us “judge nothing before the time.”
A day is coming when the secrets of God’s providence will be solved to universal satisfaction.
Job chapters nine and ten
How can a mortal argue with God? (9:1–14): Job is frustrated because, though he feels he is innocent, he cannot challenge such a mighty God.
B. God destroys both the blameless and the wicked (9:15–31): Job argues that it doesn’t matter if he is innocent, because God attacks him without reason.
C. If only there were a mediator (9:32–35): Job longs for a mediator to bring him and God together to resolve the issue.
As saints we have a mediator
D. Why are you treating me so terribly?
(10:1–7): Job begins to formulate his complaint to God.
Striking Facts: v. 2. The Christian’s comfort is that he is “in Christ” and that although he is afflicted, there is no condemnation.
(Rom.
8:1).
He is chastised that he might not be condemned with the world.
(1.
Cor.
11:32).
E. Did you create me to condemn me? (10:8–17): Job asks if God’s plan was to destroy him even as his body was being formed in his mother’s womb.
F. Better to never have been born (10:18–22): If Job was created only to be condemned, it would be better to have died at birth.
Conclusion: Man is an unequal match for his Maker, either in dispute or combat.
If God should deal with any of us according to our deserts, we should certainly be undone.
Striking Facts: 2, 3, 33.
We can never plead our integrity for our justification before God.
Were it not that the believer stands in Christ’s righteousness, he would have no ground whatever before God.
Conclusion: Sometimes, when in affliction, the believer is tempted to think that God’s providences and His justice cannot be reconciled.
Faith and patience would keep us from being weary of our lives and would show us that when God contends with us, there is always some good purpose in it.
Job chapter eleven
Contents: Zophar’s theory of Job’s condition.
He thinks Job a hypocrite and liar.
A. God is punishing you less than you deserve (11:1–6): Zophar wishes Job could see himself as God does.
B. You cannot comprehend God’s ways (11:7–12): God’s ways are beyond human understanding.
C. Confess your sins and find hope (11:13–20): Zophar, like the other friends, assumes that Job is suffering because of his sin.
Conclusion: Those are not always in the right who are most forward to express their judgment and to conclude that if God should speak, He would agree with them.
We should seek to put the best possible construction upon the words and actions of our brethren that they will bear, lest we add to their afflictions.
Striking Facts: Zophar is a type of the religious dogmatist who thinks he knows all about God’s ways and exactly what God will do in each individual case.
Job chapter 12 and 13
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