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These guys have plenty to say, and job isnt their biggest fan. So if theyre not jobs friends, what are they doing there. There is a reason why job and his friends speak so frequently of mans body and spirit. Book of job simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Saul was the first king of israel and jonathan was his. Largely a dialogue between job and his friends, the book of job contains all sorts of wrong advice and incorrect conclusions as they come from the lips of job s well meaning comforters. When good people suffer, what does god want from them. Although most of the book consists of the words of job and his friends, job himself was not the author. The book of job is not answering a theoretical question about why good people suffer. When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him.

What does the book of job teach us about the coronavirus. Rodney kleyn dear radio friends, in our studies in the life of job we have come to the last section of the book, the conclusion, beginning in chapter 38. Even when job is given opportunity to speak, elihu does not hear a cross word from him job 33. At the end of job 2, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar enter stage left. Job s three friends, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar, have historically been known for offering lengthy speeches that resulted in their being condemned by god job 42. The book of job and the nature of man 2 last time, we considered the book of jobs teaching on mans nature as to his constitution or parts, body and soul or spirit, noting that it echoes genesis 23 2. Aquinas, emboldened by the dispute between job and his friends, treated the book as a quaestio, or debate, the primary mode of learning at the university of paris, where he was a celebrated. How does god treat his friends learning from the book of.

Jun 12, 2017 i think that the main topic of job is not suffering. It is not to be supposed that job had no more than three friends indeed, elihu the buzzite appears later on as one of his friends but he had three contemporaries with whom he was especially intimate, old men, with whom he was probably accustomed to confer from time to time, and who were in the habit. It is found in the third section of the biblical canon known as the ketuvim writings. He seems determined to keep his own opinion of himself in spite of all their reasoning. If he was a sinner deserving divine punishment, he demanded his friends tell him. Job prays for gods forgiveness of them and god accepts his prayer. But they didn t actually comfort him at all, when we see the way they spoke to him later on. At one point job, weary of their unhelpful rhetoric, told them, you are miserable comforters, all of you. The books theme is the eternal problem of unmerited suffering, and it is named after its central. After reading the last commentary from job s friends, i notice i cried when his friend elihu spoke, i could not understand at first why, until god reveal it to me, it was yahew speaking through elihu. God rebukes job s three friends and orders them to make a sacrifice. In the book of job, it becomes clear that the first three of job s friends eliphaz, blidad, and zophar speak wrongly. A fair enough request given his current situation you would think.

All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to his house and dined with him in his house. Wayne poplin liberty university in partial fulfillment of the requirements for obst 592 by maurice allan smith sr. The lengthy conversation has the unified voice and consistent style of poetry, but it is a dialogue between characters who alter their moods, question their motives, change their minds, and undercut each other with sarcasm and innuendo. At the end of chapter 2 job is visited by his three friends. The play unfolds as each man gives a long speech, and job. Each time i read through the drama of the book of job. Job rejects their inadequate explanation and challenges god to respond chaps. The book of job discusses why god allows pain and suffering. The first of the three, eliphaz, acknowledges that job has been a source of strength to others job 4.

And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. They believed that man must do things to earn gods favor and therefore suffering is a sign. Why wasnt elihu included in gods scolding to jobs friends. These characters are all about asking questions to get their listeners thinkingthey dont really want an answer. My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant job has.

They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the lord had brought upon him. The poetic section of the book of job, which makes up the majority of the text job 342, is much more theologically ambiguous. Oct 09, 2017 the story of job and his friends when jobs three friends heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. The book of job mentions more than once that job was a righteous man in the eyes of the lord. He was blessed again, he was given health, he was given his friends back, he was given a beautiful family and abundance of riches. What did jobs three friends have wrong, and what did they have. The story of job and his friends unlocking the bible. Well, they definitely give us something to think about.

In the giver, what did jonas help do at the house of. Elihu is also never rebuked by job, like his three friends were. As the book of job concludes, we see that job and three of his friends needed to repent before god and also work out their differences due to what was done in the midst of job s travail. Most of the book tells about job and his friends talking. They began, as the opening chapters tell us, when, after having destroyed job s home and his wealth and killed all his children, satan obtained permission from god to afflict him with a terrible siege of boils from head to foot. Three of job s friends, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar, come to visit him, sitting with job in silence for seven days out of respect for his mourning. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. But then he turns and puts the blame for job s suffering squarely on job himself. Regrettably, jobs friends are not able to endure the mystery of his suffering, so they jump to conclusions about its source. Job s three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar sermon index. The book of job and the paradox of suffering my jewish learning.

I love the book of job because god speaks and i get to read what yahew says. Jobs friends insist that his plight can only be a punishment for personal wrongdoing and an invitation from god to repent. Guidelines for understanding and proclaiming the book of job. But as the three of them try to reason with job as to the cause of his suffering, their words, which are meant to comfort, turn to thorns that wound job s heart very sorely.

Job lived one hundred and forty years, seeing four generations of children and grandchildren. God always replaces the darkness of our existence with light of his presence when we remain faithful to him. Bob fyall gives us a nontechnical guide to job that is both digestible and substantial, both clear and warm. The characters in the book of job consist of job, his wife, his three friends bildad, eliphaz, and zophar, a man named elihu, god, and angels one of whom is named satan. We often hear these friends described as miserable counselors but this is an unfair and overly simplistic description. Mar 04, 2014 the book of job is not answering a theoretical question about why good people suffer. And it appears also that the condition for gods restoring job s fortunes was the same. In the last study we saw job pleading for some compassion and kindness from his friends. How the book of job makes us better friends and better. The giver the old man known in the community as the receiver of memory. Yet, what they ended up doing was to accuse job of sinfulness.

They were false in their logic and wrong in their conclusions. What was job arguing about with his friends in the book of. Jan 02, 2020 jobs friends did at least three things right that can be seen in job 2. The strange way god arranges to forgive desiring god.

The reason why job suffered is clarified at the beginning of the book. This is a pre1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. As we read through the book, we see their allegations of sinfulness of jobs part increasing. We know that elihu is right about this because in 42. Interpretations of elihu in job biblical hermeneutics stack. Zophar accuses job of insulting him and reminds him that the wicked. But this story is about more than just mass destruction. Job accuses god of being unjust and not operating the world. First cycle of speeches 414 objectives in studying this section 1 to examine the counsel of jobs friends, what their observations were, and upon what they based their conclusions regarding jobs suffering 2 to consider jobs response to his friends, how he took their advice, and how he continued to. It is remarkable that god would not simply accept the.

Dec 09, 2003 noone said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was. Gods wrath was aroused against them for their folly cf. The lord restored the fortunes of job, when he had prayed for his friends v. This time, job is afflicted with horrible skin sores. Bible studies and highlights in the book of job job chapters 47. On this particular day, jonas volunteered at the house of the old because his friends fiona and asher were there. What upset god about job s friends is that they misrepresented him completely. Job accuses god of being unjust and not operating the world according to principles of justice, and his friends believe that job s sin caused his suffering.

Bible studies and highlights in the book of job job chapters 814. They argued with job from the humanist position based on human experience, human tradition, and human merit. God reminds him that the world has order and beauty. Why are we still using the arguments of jobs friends. Job is the last of the three books that explore these themes of biblical. If they had spent the time to really get to know him, they would have believed and trusted that he was a. This passage highlights one of the book of jobs best style choices. The theme of the book of job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it. Especially in hebrew thought but also in nearly all cultures there was the conception that the appellation by which someone was known in some way communicated something of his character. Tonight we will speak on the book of job, possibly the most misquoted book in the world. Eliphaz the temanite, in the old testament book of job chapters 4, 5, 15, 22, one of three friends who sought to console job, who is a biblical archetype of. He is given the task of helping to bathe an old woman named larissa. The book of job consists of a prose prologue and epilogue narrative framing poetic dialogues and monologues. The book of job is one of the literary masterpieces of all time, and provides a profound discussion on the suffering of a just man.

The prose prologue chapters one and two and the epilogue 42. Since job s response to each friend is always longer than the corresponding speech, the short speech by bildad chap. He restored job s fortunes and gave him more than he had ever enjoyed. Job rebukes his friends for tormenting and insulting him, affirms that god has wronged him, urges his friends to have pity on him, and affirms that god will prove his innocence after his death and judge his friends 19. Job 1 niv prologue in the land of uz there bible gateway. So if theyre not job s friends, what are they doing there. The most hurtful comments of jobs friends bible study. This summary of the book of job provides information about the title, authors, date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the book of job. Throughout the book, job, his wife, and his friends speculate on why he, an upright man, suffers. Lets see how this main point plays out in the debates between job and his three friends. Three of jobs friends, eliphaz, bildad, and zophar, come to visit him, sitting with job in silence for seven days out of respect for his mourning. The lord blesses job 10 after job had prayed for his friends, the lord restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

This time, job is arguing that by the rules of that logic, god shouldnt be punishing him. It begins with an introduction to job s characterhe is described as. Now when job s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him. The book s theme is the eternal problem of unmerited suffering, and it is named after its central. When job s three friends eliphaz, bildad and zophar heard of his adversity, they came to visit him, saying they wanted to comfort him job 2. We find that theres a turning point within the book of job, and at the end the last chapter we read. God rewards job for his faithfulness and his endurance through such suffering. In addition, job repents of the very mistake both elihu and god had brought to his attentionspeaking words without knowledge job 42. When job s friends heard about the things that happened to him they went to comfort him. The book of job, book of hebrew scripture that is often counted among the masterpieces of world literature. His suffering had driven him to say things about himself that were overly optimistic and things about god that were disrespectful. Not only do they incur the indignation of job and his other friend elihu, but god himself rebukes them, saying to eliphaz, i am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my. There is no punishment involved with gods dealing with job, instead he is bringing him to a more perfect understanding of himself.

The reformed witness hour god rebukes job s friendsbroadcast date. What upset god about jobs friends is that they misrepresented him completely. Job is wrong to claim innocence at the expense of gods grace. So it appears that the condition for job s friends to be restored to god was job s forgiving intercession for them.

I dare say all day long you use passages, and you arent aware you are misquoting this book of job. Job s final speech in his own defense is probably where the book originally ended. Examples of friendship in the bible learn religions. This summary of the book of job provides information about the title, author s, date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the book of job. Hence especially in the hebrew mentality the concept of name was very important the personal character of a name in addition the a name is something personal, it is what identifies us as. The hebrew book of job is part of ketuvim writings of the jewish bible. But then he turns and puts the blame for jobs suffering squarely on job himself. In his hand is the soul of every living thing, and the life breath of all mankind 12. It is unwise to pull an isolated verse from the book of job and use it to understand godif the verse comes from a speech of eliphaz, bildad. Like the other two comforters, bildad and eliphaz, zophar emphasizes an old hebrew conceptsuffering is the inevitable lot of the evil man. The poetic discourse of job and his friends is unique in its own right. The book of job closes with a mention of how job lived another 140 years, seeing his descendants to the fourth generation before finally dying 42.

The skeptical character of the symposium, with its challenge to timehonored views, most likely would have kept the book of job out of the canon of old testament writings had some additions not been made to the original book. Those who have read other works on job may well find themselves saying as they come to the conclusion of this one, now it is clear what the book of job is about. His friends apparently did not know and understand job and his relationship with god. Even though he was obedient to god, romans 4 makes it clear that his salvation was not earned by works, but through faith in the promise of god for a savior. The giver has held the communitys collective memory for many years and uses his wisdom to help the committee of elders make important decisions, even though he is racked by the pain his memories give him and believes that perhaps those memories belong in the minds of everyone in the community. The book of job a widely misunderstood book jeffrey. The most hurtful comments of job s friends,barry york study from the bible and be encouraged to grow your faith. When there is blatant sin that must be dealt with as well. Also a study of what the book of job means to all mankind john savage hawley on. One of the most famous stories about friendship in the bible is the story of jonathan and david 1 samuel 1820. He has job pray for his friends and restores his fortunes and more. Oct 16, 2014 one little help to grasping the book of job for me was the comment by one of jobs friends to the effect that, the hypocrites hope shall perish.

What did job s three friends have wrong, and what did they have right. He lived another 140 years, we read, and he died being full of days. Three expressions in the book have often been quoted by pope gregory the great in his moralia in job and the church fathers. Not much is known about job based on the masoretic text of the jewish bible. It is common to view the narrative frame as the original core of the book, enlarged later by the poetic dialogues and discourses, and sections of the book such as the elihu speeches and the wisdom poem of chapter 28 as late insertions, but recent trends have tended to concentrate on the. They were true friends, bringing to job s lonely ashheap the compassion of a.

The book of job also teaches us that god is good, just, and fair in his dealings. Towards the end of the book, job s friends start to think that job is not good because a lot of bad things are happening to him. With help of fat au, carrie and hood find the man who took job from the camp. A lesson in friendship from the book of job hodgepodge.

Jobs friends accuse him of doing evil job 423 bible. Two, neither job nor his friends ever saw the conflict going on between. In my opinion, the key to understanding these three things, and the book of job, is found at the beginning of the book, and repeated again at the end, when it is written that job s friends. The dialogue, which consists of dense hebrew poetry, and includes the conversations between job, his 4 friends, and his suffering and standing with god 3. The dialogue sections of the book are written in poetry. With antony starr, ivana milicevic, ulrich thomsen, frankie faison. The names of his friends are eliphaz, bildad, and zophar. God clearly does judge sin, but the name of yhwh is associated with this activity of god. What did jobs three friends have wrong, and what did they. As with other books of the bible, job bears the name of the narratives.