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Category Archives: Job
losers
Job 18 Bildad is irritated with Job’s insistence that he is suffering innocently. To Bildad, Job is a loser. He has lost both house and household: everything that he could rely on. Bildad’s worldview has only one answer for such … Continue reading
Job’s hope
Job 16-17 Job knew that he was going to die. If he did not die of his present illness, at least in a few years he would succumb to the inevitable (Job 16:22). So, he asks a very important question, … Continue reading
knowing forgiveness
Job 15 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?(Job 15:9 ESV) Eliphaz’ question was a good one – if only he had not meant it as a rhetorical … Continue reading
hidden… and remembered
Job 14 Job laments that human beings are not like trees. A tree may be cut down, but given the right conditions, it may sprout back again from the apparently dead stump. But, Job complains, human beings are not like … Continue reading
proverbs of ashes
Job 13 Job told his attending friends that their maxims were proverbs of ashes. They look good on paper, but that is all they are good for. Reality is seldom as simple as a choice between a or b. Reality … Continue reading
down and out
Job 12 Job reminds his friends that he had been known as a wise man too, before his calamity came. His response to their insistence that he repent for the sin that obviously brought this disaster upon himself is to … Continue reading
outward appearance
Job 11 Zophar is guilty of only seeing what has happened to Job and assuming that it proved that Job has acted foolishly and brought this tragedy upon himself. He urges Job to repent. Job lived in ignorant times, and … Continue reading
truth collides with truth
Job 9-10 Job affirms that Bildad is right in saying that God is just. But he is also convinced that he has a right relationship with God, so nothing he had done brought this calamity upon him. Truth collides with … Continue reading
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sign or substance?
Job 8 Bildad uses an excellent argument, which would no doubt have been very successful except for the fact that Job was innocent. Bildad compares Job’s previous fortune to that of a Papyrus plant, which grows quickly and looms above … Continue reading
a burdensome weight
Job 6-7 From the ESV Study Bible: “The opening line of v. 17 (What is man, that you make so much of him) echoes the thought of Ps. 8:4 (“what is man that you are mindful of him”). However, where … Continue reading
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Tagged Job 6, Job 7
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