Job was certainly aware that the wicked perish and the righteous are protected, but that only furthered Job's dilemma, he was suffering and yet innocent! He goes back and repeats the comment that Eliphaz had made, "can mankind be just before God?" (Job 4:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
"If Job was to follow the Eliphaz's urging that he 'place his cause before God' (Job 5:8), the problem to be faced would be 'how'? Because God had tormented Job, an upright man, how, he reasoned, could any man stand righteous before God? Job then proceeded to answer his own question by stating that... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is. sample of God's might. He overturns mountains, shakes the earth, darkens the sun and stars, stretches out the heavens, tramples the waves of the sea, and creates the constellations.... [ Continue Reading ]
"The Bear (the Big Dipper) in the north, Orion in the south, Pleiades in the east and west, and the 'chambers of the south', i.e. southern constellations" _(Zuck p. 47)._... [ Continue Reading ]
God does great things that cannot be comprehended, works that cannot be numbered. Compare with Job 5:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
God is incomprehensible. "No one can keep God from snatching someone away, and no one can force God to answer the question, 'What art Thou doing?'" _(p. 47)._ The human eye cannot see Him, the senses cannot perceive Him, the human will cannot hinder Him and the human reason cannot question Him.... [ Continue Reading ]
"BENEATH HIM CROUCH THE HELPERS OF RAHAB": "The reference is to the Babylonian creation myth in which Markduk defeated Tiamat and then captured her helpers. God in His anger and power was able to conquer all the forces of evil, real and mythical. Rahab is another name for Tiamat, and for Leviathan,... [ Continue Reading ]
"How can Job expect to face God, if. sea monster cannot? Job would be so overwhelmed that he would be unable to choose his words in order to challenge God" _(Strauss p. 88)._ Even though Job claims to be innocent, he still did not have. chance in such. court. "Since he would be speechless in God's p... [ Continue Reading ]
Job complains that God seems bent on destroying him. "He bruised him with. tempest (Job's suffering is likened to his being buffeted in. storm), multiplied his wounds without cause (like an enemy attacking him)" _(Zuck p. 48)._ He is convinced that he could not receive an impartial hearing from God,... [ Continue Reading ]
Seeing that God is supreme in power and subject to no court, man has no grounds on which to contend with Him. "In either case, whether. show of strength or. case of justice, Job felt that he could not possibly win" _(Zuck pp. 48-49). _... [ Continue Reading ]
Once again Job claims that he is righteous, but God is so overwhelming that Job was afraid he would become confused and end up witnessing against himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is another point of despair, he did not even care about himself anymore; he hated his life.... [ Continue Reading ]
Job has reached the conclusion that it makes no difference to God, God destroys both the innocent and the guilty. In fact, in His impersonal concern, God mocks the innocent person who dies suddenly in. plague... [ Continue Reading ]
(JOB 9:23). JOB 9:24 "God gives the earth to the wicked (they are the ones possessing the earth's wealth and dominating others) and covers (blindfolds?) the judges so that they cannot be fair. Enraged at such inequities at the hand of God, Job cried out, 'If it is not He, then who is it?'" _(Zuck p.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is another description of the brevity of life. The "runner" in Job 9:25 refers to. courier, that is. fast runner with the royal messenger service. The "reed boats" made of papyrus were the speedboats of the day, and birds like eagles or the peregrine falcon can reach speeds up to 120 mph as it... [ Continue Reading ]
Job had thought about trying to forget his problems and cheer up, but considered this useless, because he would still know that God is against him. Even if he were to clean himself up, he thought that God was so against him that He would toss him into. cesspool. Trying to "look on the bright side" d... [ Continue Reading ]
"HE IS NOT. MAN": "How does this square with the Mormon notion, as stated by Joseph Smith, that 'God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is. man like unto one of yourselves?' (Job 33:12; Hosea 11:9)" _(Jackson p. 40). (See: Millennial Star, V, 1844, pp. 88,89)._... [ Continue Reading ]
Job desires the services of someone who could become. mediator between himself and God. This cry for an umpire or mediator will be ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5).... [ Continue Reading ]
The same word for "rod" is used in Psalms 23:4. "To David, God's rod was his defense against his enemies; for Job, God's rod brings only violence and pain" _(Strauss p. 93)._... [ Continue Reading ]
Job could only speak if he knew that God would not retaliate. "If there is no mediator, then. will speak for myself. But what shall. say that has not already been said?" _(p. 93)._ The idea also may be, that if God would remove affliction, Job would confront God with confidence, but, he said in desp... [ Continue Reading ]