QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 3:1-26 47. Why is it important that we understand the literary form in which Job is written? 48. Who speaks the most in this bookJob or his friends? What could this suggest as to the problem of suffering? 49. What is a lament? 50. Why are the three friends all prepar... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE MEANING OF SILENCE_ Chapter s 314 I. NO EXIT: HELL IS OTHER PEOPLESartre SPEECHES FULL OF SOUND AND FURY Job 3:1, Job 14:22 A. WHY ME, LORD? (Job 3:1-26) 1. He curses his day. (Job 3:1-10) TEXT 3:1-10 3 After this opened Job his month, and coned his day. 2 And Job answered and said:... [ Continue Reading ]
2. Asks why he was born (Job 3:11-19) TEXT 3:11-19 11 WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had... [ Continue Reading ]
3. And why he should go on living (Job 3:20-26) TEXT 3:20-26 20 WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN TO HIM THAT IS IN MISERY, And life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can fi... [ Continue Reading ]