Job 3
The next 30 odd chapters of this book consists of the conversation between Job and his friends,
It seems that Job speaks for 1 chapter and then his friends take 2 chapters to respond to him, so I'll do each complaint and each response in one post and try and speed things up a bit!
Job starts the conversation by wishing that he had never been born, and that he would be better off dead without any of his current troubles.
In death the king and the poor beggar are very much alike and only living people have to face trouble and strife
Job finishes questioning why God gives life to men, since he hides future from his creation and has hedged Job in.
Job has realised that his very worst nightmare has come shockingly and suddenly very real indeed leaving Job with no rest, only turmoil.
Job 4
Eliphaz is the first of Job's friends who try and speak, but his attempt does not really meet with total success.
He starts off berating Job for giving advice and help to others in the past, yet Job is now discouraged and feeling sorry for himself?
Job should be confident in his piety as after all good people don't suffer - innocent people don't suffer misfortune
In Eliphaz experience "evil come to he who evil does"
His advice finishes with the thought "Can a man be more righteous that God? Can even a strong man be more pure that his maker?"
If God challenges even his angels a mere man who cannot match God for purity and being right.
It would appear that Job's sufferings are the result of some kind of wrongdoing that Job has committed.
Job 5
"Call if you will but which of the holy ones will you turn?"
This chapter has the great verse "Man was born to trouble as sure as sparks fly upwards"
Eliphaz recommends that Job lay his complaint before God, after all God works miracles all the time, like sending rain on the earth.
If Job is really right with God then surely God will rescue him and his fortune will be rebuilt and his descendants will prosper.
The next 30 odd chapters of this book consists of the conversation between Job and his friends,
It seems that Job speaks for 1 chapter and then his friends take 2 chapters to respond to him, so I'll do each complaint and each response in one post and try and speed things up a bit!
Job starts the conversation by wishing that he had never been born, and that he would be better off dead without any of his current troubles.
In death the king and the poor beggar are very much alike and only living people have to face trouble and strife
Job finishes questioning why God gives life to men, since he hides future from his creation and has hedged Job in.
Job has realised that his very worst nightmare has come shockingly and suddenly very real indeed leaving Job with no rest, only turmoil.
Job 4
Eliphaz is the first of Job's friends who try and speak, but his attempt does not really meet with total success.
He starts off berating Job for giving advice and help to others in the past, yet Job is now discouraged and feeling sorry for himself?
Job should be confident in his piety as after all good people don't suffer - innocent people don't suffer misfortune
In Eliphaz experience "evil come to he who evil does"
His advice finishes with the thought "Can a man be more righteous that God? Can even a strong man be more pure that his maker?"
If God challenges even his angels a mere man who cannot match God for purity and being right.
It would appear that Job's sufferings are the result of some kind of wrongdoing that Job has committed.
Job 5
"Call if you will but which of the holy ones will you turn?"
This chapter has the great verse "Man was born to trouble as sure as sparks fly upwards"
Eliphaz recommends that Job lay his complaint before God, after all God works miracles all the time, like sending rain on the earth.
If Job is really right with God then surely God will rescue him and his fortune will be rebuilt and his descendants will prosper.
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