Category: Job

Eliphaz speaks again, and foolishly explains the great extent of Job’s wickedness, followed by a call for Job to repent. We’ll focus on the latter. “Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. If you return to…

Job responds to Zophar’s “the wicked will not prosper” speech (ch20) with his own “the wicked will prosper” speech. Technically, both are correct. “Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear,…

Zophar speaks again, and focuses on the suffering of the wicked. ” ‘Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth, that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment? In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;…

“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet…

Bildad speaks again, and emphasizes how the wicked will be punished (he’s probably implying that Job’s circumstances are punishment due to wickedness). ” ‘Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine. The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put…

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. Yet the righteous holds to his way, and…

This chapter has a mixture of elements – Job laments how miserable his friends are at comforting him, and how God has made an enemy of Job. Yet, there are these hopeful verses near the end of the chapter. “O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. Even now,…

In this chapter Eliphaz speaks for the second time, rebuking Job even more harshly than when he last he spoke. ” ‘Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? But you…

” ‘Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come. You would call,…

” ‘Only two things do not do to me, Then I will not hide from Your face: Remove Your hand from me, And let not the dread of You terrify me. Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, then reply to me. How many are my iniquities and sins? Make known to…