Job chapter 4

Eliphaz Calls Angels "Bad Flyers"

• Breaking the silence, Eliphaz throws his two cents in. He says that Job must have done something wrong to merit this punishment. Innocents, he says, are never punished.
• We  sometimes  do the same thing  we judge  a person  before we know  the  reason  why  something  is  going on  in their lives.  Job had  done  no wrong  but  his  friend  was  quick  to judge  him  that he  had sinned  against god.  I  wonder  how  often  we  do  this  ourselves?  
• We that  are  children of God  will look  at  others and  we look  on the  outside and  judge their lives  from  what  we  see  there.  If God  just looked  on the  outside  we all would  be  with  out mercy  because  none  of us  can  say that  we  are  worthy of  His  mercy and grace.
• And hey, if God even gets annoyed at his angels, how can humans pass the test? Basically, humans have no chance.
• Eliphaz  was saying  that  we are  far  beneth God and his angels but then  we  can also say  that just like  some  today  Eliphaz just  wanted to him  himself  talk  when  he didn't  know  what  he was  talking about.  Some  of  what  he says  is true if  we keep  sinning  and  don't  asked God  to forgive  us  then  we  can  be punshed but  if  we confess our sins  to  Him  he  is just and will to forgive us.  Eliphaz doen't  know  God's  greater  pupose in Job's  life just  as  we  don't  know sometimes  why things  happen to us.  God knows  the  reason  why and  all we  need  to  understand is that  it is in God's  plan.  Yes  I  know  sometimes  this  is  not  easy to do  andI will say  that  I am  one  of the  onwes  that  it  is hardest  for me  to  understand this.  I want  to know  what  why and  how   of any given problem  in my life or  my families  life  but  I  know  that  God  is with us and I have  to keep the faith and  let  him lead me  and my family one day at a time.

Job3

                          Job's Soliloquy (3)

OBJECTIVES IN STUDYING THIS SECTION

1) To consider Job's soliloquy, which starts the "great controversy"
   between Job and his friends

2) To appreciate the depth of Job's complaint, why he wished that he
   had never been born

3) To note the questions he raised as he sought to understand the
   problem of suffering

SUMMARY

Having sat in silence for seven days in the presence of his friends who
had come to comfort him, Job finally speaks.  In the form of a 
soliloquy, he begins by cursing the day of his birth and the night of
his conception for failing to prevent his sorrow (3:1-10).  He then
bemoans why he did not die at birth or even be stillborn, for then at
least he would be at rest, just like those who were great in their
lifetime, or like those who had been oppressed (3:11-19).  Job also
wonders why the suffering who long for death are allowed to linger.  He
concludes by stating that what he most greatly feared has now come upon
him:  trouble, from which there seems to be no rest (3:20-26).

OUTLINE

I. JOB'S CURSE (3:1-10)

   A. HE CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH...
      1. Not just the day of his birth, but also the night of his 
         conception
      2. Because of the sorrow that has come his way
      -- I.e., he wished he had never been born

   B. IN THIS HE RESEMBLES JEREMIAH...
      1. Who had an unpopular ministry  - Jer 20:14-18
      2. Who experienced much suffering like Job

   C. AN IMPORTANT POINT TO REMEMBER...
      1. Both expressed a desire never to have been born
      2. Yet neither Job or Jeremiah for a moment considered the 
         possibility of suicide
      3. They might have questioned the Lord's wisdom, but they did not
         dare take the precious gift of life with which He endowed them

Job 2

When Satan appeared before God again, the Lord asked whether he had
considered how Job had remained faithful despite his losses.  Satan
then made another challenge, saying that Job would curse God if he
himself were harmed.  God then allowed Satan power over Job, but only
up to the point of actually taking his life.  With such power, Satan
strikes Job with painful boils (cf. 2:7-8; 7:5; 30:30) over his entire
body.  Job's wife lost what faith she might have had, and told him to
curse God and die.  Job, however, refuses to sin with his lips
(2:1-10).

At this point, three of Job's friends (Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar)
come to mourn and try to comfort him.  However, they are shocked when
they see Job (whom they did not recognize because of the boils), and
sit dumbfounded for seven days and nights without a word in reaction to
the magnitude of his grief (2:11-13).job

Job 1

SUMMARY

The first two chapters set the stage for the great controversy that
will take place between Job and his friends, which is precipitated by a
controversy between God and Satan.  We are first introduced to Job in
the land of Uz (likely Edom, SE of the Dead Sea, cf. Jer 25:20-21; Lam
4:21).  A man of remarkable character, he was blessed with a large
family and many possessions.  As an example of his piety, mention is
made of his sacrifices in behalf of his children (1:1-5).

We then learn of the controversy between God and Satan concerning Job.
On an occasion when Satan came before the Lord, God asked him whether 
he had considered His faithful servant, Job.  Satan responded with an 
attack on Job's character, that his fear of God was only because God
blessed him.  Satan then said that Job would curse God if everything he
had was taken away.  In response, God put all that Job had in Satan's
power, with the exception of Job himself (1:6-12).

In one day, then, Job lost all his material possessions through various
calamities.  His sons and daughters, also, were killed when a great
tornado destroyed the house in which they were partying.  Though deeply
grieved, Job worships God and does not charge Him with wrong (1:13-22).