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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