Notes: Job 20-21

Bob Feather January 16th, 2008

English Language Study Guide for January 16, 2008

After Zophar’s scathing accusations, Job responds.

Job 21

2-3: Listen to what I have to say, then make fun of me if you will.

4: Do you think I’m just making a show before men?

5: Be quiet; cover your mouth if you must.

7-19: Look around and observe the lives of wicked men

  • 7: They become mighty in power
  • 8: Their families are large and healthy
  • 9: They don’t live in fear of God’s chastening rod
  • 10-11: Their animals increase
  • 11-12: Their children enjoy life, music and dance
  • 13: They are wealthy
  • 13: They don’t have lingering deaths
  • 14: They bid God leave for they have no desire to know His will for their lives
  • 15: They consider worship to be unprofitable; they consider God to be irrelevant
  • 17-19: God ignores them for their insignificance

22: Would you advise God to run things differently?

23-26: All men die alike.

27-28: I know what you’re trying to do to me.

29-33: If you would but ask, you would learn that there is a future day of judgment for the wicked, and justice will prevail.

34: Why, then, do you keep lying about me and saying that all of this is judgment for my sins?

 

Job 22

Like a broken record, Eliphaz speaks again, repeating his false accusations.

2-3: Job, God doesn’t need you and He takes no pleasure in you.

Psalm 35:27  Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

Psalm 147:11  The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 149:4  For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

Ephesians 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

5-9: Job, you are a wicked man.

  • taken from your brother without cause
  • stripped the naked
  • refused food and water from the hungry and thirsty
  • rejected widows and orphans

10-11: Because of your sin these things come upon you.

12-14: Dare you challenge God?

15-17: Don’t you remember what happened in the (not-so-distant) past? Recall that God destroyed the earth with a flood because of the wickedness of men (Genesis 6:5-7)

21-30: Draw near to God, Job; and He will give peace to your soul.

These last 10 verses would be most encouraging to the person riddled with guilt; but they offer no help to one of whom God says, “there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and avoids evil?” (Job 1:8).

 

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Psalm 35:27
27Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
Psalm 147:11
11The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Psalm 149:4
4For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
Ephesians 1:5
5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Genesis 6:5-7
5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Job 1:8
8And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

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