QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 6:1-30 114. Job responds to Eliphaz, but also to more than Eliphaz. Show how so. 115. Job finds no comfort from his friends so he turns to whom? 116. There are three kinds of suffering carefully distinguished in the scriptures. What are they? Discuss. 117. Name the t... [ Continue Reading ]
C. SEARCH FOR COMFORT AND JOB'S CONFRONTATION WITH GOD (Job 6:1, Job 7:21) 1. There is adequate reason for his complaint. (Job 6:1-7) TEXT 6:1-7 6 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances! 3 For now it would be heavier than th... [ Continue Reading ]
2. In his wasted condition, death is desirable. (Job 6:8-13) TEXT 6:8-13 8 OH THAT I MIGHT HAVE MY REQUEST; And that God would grant _me_ THE THING THAT I LONG FOR! 9 Even that it would please God to crash me; That he would let loose his hand, and cat me off! 10 And be, it still my consolation... [ Continue Reading ]
3. Bitter disappointment from his friends, who are unreasonably hard (Job 6:14-23) TEXT 6:14-23 14 TO HIM THAT IS READY TO FAINT KINDNESS _should be showed_ FROM HIS FRIEND; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of... [ Continue Reading ]
4. Their words are academic. Where is his sin? (Job 6:24-30) TEXT 6:24-30 24 TEACH ME, AND I WILL HOLD MY PEACE; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove? 26 Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the... [ Continue Reading ]