Job 30 – Job Reflects on His Current Misery Audio for Job 30: Job 29-31 – Job’s Summary Defense A. Job’s loss of respect in the community. 1. (1-8) The low character of the men who now mock Job. “But now they mock at me, men younger than I, Whose fathers I disdained to put…

Job 29 – Job Remembers Better Days Audio for Job 29: Job 29-31 – Job’s Summary Defense A. Job’s blessed relationships. 1. (1-6) Job was blessed in his relationship with God. Job further continued his discourse, and said:“Oh, that I were as in months past,As in the days when God watched over me;When His lamp…

Job 28 – Job’s Discourse on Wisdom Audio for Job 28: Job 25-28 – The Greatness of God and the Value of Wisdom A. Man and the search for material treasure. 1. (1-4) Man seeks after treasure in the earth. “Surely there is a mine for silver,And a place where gold is refined.Iron is taken…

Job 27 – Job and His Integrity Audio for Job 27: Job 25-28 – The Greatness of God and the Value of Wisdom A. Job boldly declares that he will maintain his integrity. 1. (1-6) Job’s commitment to the truth. Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said: “As God lives, who has taken away my…

Job 26 – Job’s Response to Bildad Audio for Job 26: Job 25-28 – The Greatness of God and the Value of Wisdom A. Job challenges his friends. 1. (1-2) Have you practically helped me or anyone else? But Job answered and said: “How have you helped him who is without power? How have you…

Job 25 – Bildad’s Final Speech Audio for Job 25: Job 25-28 – The Greatness of God and the Value of Wisdom A. Bildad muses upon the greatness of God. 1. (1) Bildad’s final speech. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: a. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: This is the final word from Job’s…

Job 24 – The Problem of the Seeming Security of the Wicked Audio for Job 24: Job 22-24 – I Shall Come Forth as Gold A. Job explains the conduct of the wicked. 1. (1-8) The conduct of the wicked. “Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, Why do those who know Him see…

Job 23 – Job’s Desire to Appear Before God Audio for Job 23: Job 22-24 – I Shall Come Forth as Gold A. Job longs to take his case to God. 1. (1-7) Job’s bitter complaint and his inability to connect with God. Then Job answered and said: “Even today my complaint is bitter; My…

Job 22 – Eliphaz Speaks a Last Time Audio for Job 22: Job 22-24 – I Shall Come Forth as Gold This begins a third (and shortened) round of debate between Job and his three friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. Through these three rounds, “A certain movement can be detected. In the first cycle the…

Job 21 – Job Answers Zophar’s Discourse Audio for Job 21: Job 18-21 – I Know My Redeemer Lives A. The problem of the prosperity of the wicked. 1. (1-3) Job’s opening plea. Then Job answered and said:“Listen carefully to my speech,And let this be your consolation.Bear with me that I may speak,And after I…

Job 20 – Zophar Speaks a Second Time Audio for Job 20: Job 18-21 – I Know My Redeemer Lives A. Zophar answers Job. 1. (1-3) Zophar describes his turmoil. Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:“Therefore my anxious thoughts make me answer,Because of the turmoil within me.I have heard the rebuke that reproaches me,And…

Job 19 – Job’s Answer to Bildad: “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” Audio for Job 19: Job 18-21 – I Know My Redeemer Lives A. Job laments his comfortless affliction. 1. (1-6) Job complains that his friends have not understood him at all. Then Job answered and said: “How long will you torment my…