Ch. 6 Outline

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Ch. 6 - Job

Big Questions

Will Job fear God if He stopped blessing? (1:9)

Will we fear God likewise?

What about Job’s friends?

What can we learn about the mystery of God’s (in)activity?

Structure (pg. 131-132)

Intro ch. 1-2 prose/narrative

Job + Friends ch. 3-37 poetry

God Responds ch. 38-42:6 poetry

Closing ch. 42:7-end prose/narrative

Context

Need context of intro + closing to understand the convos

“Who” = God permits Satan to test Job

“What” = list of test parameters

“Why” = God accepts challenge to prove Satan wrong

Job’s Case

Defends innocence

Protests apparent, personal injustice

Frequent appeals to see God

Questions whether God is upholding His own created order

Doesn’t curse God (comes close)

Lone perspective among friends

Job’s Friends

Views Job as lacking faith + sinful

Long-winded in their rebukes

Unaware of God’s (in)activity

Offer simplistic solution = just repent!

God Responds

Ambiguous nature

Rhetorical ?s

“Who is the one who formed the seas…?”

“What have you established in My world…?”

His words are (mysteriously) restorative to Job (42:5)

Results in increased humility, faith, + silence

Rebukes Job’s friends + declares their sin

Declares Job’s righteousness + blesses him

Awkwardly + abruptly ends

Theological Implications

Wisdom needs faith + endurance

Faith in (un)seen work of God

Embracing limitedness

Beware of misuse of wisdom - its a thing

“Right words, wrong time”

Calamity doesn’t (always) mean guilt

Suffer with/comfort vs. debate/doctrine

Following God = perplexing + painful

Can lead to spiritual transformation

Learn from Job’s attitude + responses

Excerpts from Job 28

“From where, then, does wisdom come?

And where is the place of understanding?

It is hidden…

God understands the way…

He knows…

For He…

Sees everything…

…He saw it and declared it;

He established it, and searched it out.

…He said to man,

‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,

and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

(vs. 20, 27-28, pieces of 21, 23, 24)

Reading Focus

Read Pg. 133-158

Skip rest (sections before and after)