Portion For Reading JOb 38-42I. GOD'S FIRST DISCOURSE (38:1-40:5)
A. INTRODUCTORY REBUKE AND CHALLENGE (38:1-3)
1. The Lord answers Job (38:1)
a. Job finally gets his audience with God
b. The Lord speaks to Job out of the whirlwind
A. INTRODUCTORY REBUKE AND CHALLENGE (38:1-3)
1. The Lord answers Job (38:1)
a. Job finally gets his audience with God
b. The Lord speaks to Job out of the whirlwind
2. The Lord's rebuke and challenge (38:2-3)
a. Rebuking Job for darkening counsel by words without
knowledge
b. Challenging Job to answer the questions God will ask of him
Job 38:2,3
a. Rebuking Job for darkening counsel by words without
knowledge
b. Challenging Job to answer the questions God will ask of him
Job 38:2,3
"Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
B. QUESTIONS POSED TO JOB (38:4-39:30)
1. Questions concerning the Creation (38:4-15)
a. Related to the earth
b. Related to the sea
c. Related to the morning and dawn
with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
B. QUESTIONS POSED TO JOB (38:4-39:30)
1. Questions concerning the Creation (38:4-15)
a. Related to the earth
b. Related to the sea
c. Related to the morning and dawn
JOb 38:4-15
"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone-
while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels [a] shouted for joy?
"Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt'?
"Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.
The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.
II. GOD'S SECOND DISCOURSE (40:6-42:6)
A. ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO JOB (40:6-7)
1. As the Lord continues to answer Job out of the whirlwind
2. Job challenged to answer the questions God will ask him
6 Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm:
JOb 40-6,7
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone-
while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels [a] shouted for joy?
"Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt'?
"Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.
The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.
II. GOD'S SECOND DISCOURSE (40:6-42:6)
A. ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO JOB (40:6-7)
1. As the Lord continues to answer Job out of the whirlwind
2. Job challenged to answer the questions God will ask him
6 Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm:
JOb 40-6,7
"Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
B. MORE QUESTIONS POSED TO JOB (40:8-41:34)
1. Concerning his effort to justify himself while condemning God
(40:8-14)
a. Will Job annul God's judgment?
b. Will he condemn God that he may be justified?
c. Does Job have the power of God?
d. Let Job adorn himself with majesty and glory, humble the
proud, and God will confess that Job can save himself
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
B. MORE QUESTIONS POSED TO JOB (40:8-41:34)
1. Concerning his effort to justify himself while condemning God
(40:8-14)
a. Will Job annul God's judgment?
b. Will he condemn God that he may be justified?
c. Does Job have the power of God?
d. Let Job adorn himself with majesty and glory, humble the
proud, and God will confess that Job can save himself
Job 40:8-14
"Would you discredit my justice?
Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
Do you have an arm like God's,
and can your voice thunder like his?
Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,
and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.
Unleash the fury of your wrath,
look at every proud man and bring him low,
look at every proud man and humble him,
crush the wicked where they stand.
Bury them all in the dust together;
shroud their faces in the grave.
Then I myself will admit to you
that your own right hand can save you
Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
Do you have an arm like God's,
and can your voice thunder like his?
Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,
and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.
Unleash the fury of your wrath,
look at every proud man and bring him low,
look at every proud man and humble him,
crush the wicked where they stand.
Bury them all in the dust together;
shroud their faces in the grave.
Then I myself will admit to you
that your own right hand can save you
I. JOB'S FRIENDS REBUKED (42:7-9)
A. GOD REBUKES ELIPHAZ & HIS TWO COMPANIONS (42:7)
1. God's wrath was aroused against them for their "folly" (cf.
42:8)
2. They had not spoken what is right about God, unlike Job
3. In what way, for hadn't Job accused God of injustice?
a. Perhaps in regards to the debate over the cause of
suffering
1) They had argued that suffering is always sent by God in
response to sin
2) Job had denied that; in this he was right and they were
wrong
b. Or in that Job had repented, whereas the three friends had
not yet done so
B. THE THREE FRIENDS RESTORED (42:8-9)
1. God instructs them to offer seven bulls and seven rams, and
have Job pray for them
2. This they did, for the Lord had accepted Job
II. JOB RESTORED, COMFORTED, AND BLESSED (42:10-17)
A. RESTORED BY GOD (42:10)
1. Upon praying for his friends, the Lord restores what he lost
2. The Lord restored twice as much as he had lost
B. COMFORTED BY HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS (42:11)
1. His brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances come to eat
with him and comfort him
a. Note that it says "for all the adversity the LORD had
brought upon him"
b. While Satan was the instigator of Job's suffering, the LORD
bore ultimate responsibility by allowing Satan to test Job
2. They each bring a piece of silver and ring of gold
C. BLESSED BY GOD (42:12-17)
1. Job's latter days blessed more than his beginning
2. His livestock is doubled (14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000
yoke of oxen, 1,000 female donkeys)
3. He is blessed with 7 sons and 3 beautiful daughters, the
latter to whom he provided an inheritance along with their
brothers
4. He lived 140 years, saw descendants to the fourth generation,
and died full of days
A. GOD REBUKES ELIPHAZ & HIS TWO COMPANIONS (42:7)
1. God's wrath was aroused against them for their "folly" (cf.
42:8)
2. They had not spoken what is right about God, unlike Job
3. In what way, for hadn't Job accused God of injustice?
a. Perhaps in regards to the debate over the cause of
suffering
1) They had argued that suffering is always sent by God in
response to sin
2) Job had denied that; in this he was right and they were
wrong
b. Or in that Job had repented, whereas the three friends had
not yet done so
B. THE THREE FRIENDS RESTORED (42:8-9)
1. God instructs them to offer seven bulls and seven rams, and
have Job pray for them
2. This they did, for the Lord had accepted Job
II. JOB RESTORED, COMFORTED, AND BLESSED (42:10-17)
A. RESTORED BY GOD (42:10)
1. Upon praying for his friends, the Lord restores what he lost
2. The Lord restored twice as much as he had lost
B. COMFORTED BY HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS (42:11)
1. His brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances come to eat
with him and comfort him
a. Note that it says "for all the adversity the LORD had
brought upon him"
b. While Satan was the instigator of Job's suffering, the LORD
bore ultimate responsibility by allowing Satan to test Job
2. They each bring a piece of silver and ring of gold
C. BLESSED BY GOD (42:12-17)
1. Job's latter days blessed more than his beginning
2. His livestock is doubled (14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000
yoke of oxen, 1,000 female donkeys)
3. He is blessed with 7 sons and 3 beautiful daughters, the
latter to whom he provided an inheritance along with their
brothers
4. He lived 140 years, saw descendants to the fourth generation,
and died full of days
JOb 42-12-16
The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
And so he died, old and full of years.
Source:ccel.org