In Job, chapter four, verse thirteen, it is not said that Eliphaz’s visions were from God: In fact, they were not from God, for they described Him as unconcerned about humankind, as in verses seventeen through twenty-one. To build theology on dreams and visions that cannot be supported by God’s written revelation is unrighteous and completely […]
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In Job, chapter four, verse seven, the theology that the righteous will not perish and the wicked punished is valid from an eternal viewpoint. Ultimately, justice will be present. However, retribution here on earth does not always occur, and the innocent suffer. Failure to recognize this truth was a fundamental error in the thinking of
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In Job, chapter three, verse twenty-five, Job’s greatest desire had been for the presence and favor of God. Now, the thing he dreaded the most had happened. God seemed to have forsaken him, and he had no idea why. However, Job did not curse God. He still prayed to Him for mercy and relief, as
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In Job, chapter three, verse thirteen, the servant of God conceived the grave as a place of rest. He did not see it as extinction but as a place of continuing personal existence, as verses thirteen through nineteen. The theme verse comes from the Speech of Job section in chapter three, where his friends Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad
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In Job, chapter three, verse one, he was bereaved, humiliated, and in pain. His utmost hurt was that God seemed to have left him. In his speech from chapter two, verses two through twenty-six, Job told God exactly how he felt. He began by cursing the day of his birth and his miserable existence. However,
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In Job, chapter two, verse eleven, is a part of the Friends of Job section that stems from the theme verse until verse thirteen. After hearing of Job’s adversity, his three friends come to sympathize with him and comfort him. The Book of Job records their dialogues with the sufferer. Their perspective represents a popular but incomplete
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In Job, chapter two, verse ten, is part of Satan’s second request of God section against the servant from the opening verse until the theme concerning his well-being: health. The devil even went further and got Job’s wife into the situation in verse nine to disrupt his integrity, advising him to go against God due to the
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In Job, chapter two, verse six, God allowed Satan to inflict further pain upon his servant because neither Job’s complete commitment to God could be proven nor God’s endeavor to redeem him from sin demonstrated effectively without undeserved suffering. The testing of the faith of a righteous person through such suffering has enormous significance because
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In Job, chapter two, verse three, Job the servant, the innocent sufferer, foreshadows Jesus Christ and all righteous believers under the new covenant. As the Old Testament ideal of the suffering righteous person, Job is a type of Christ: the perfect righteous man who suffered even though he was innocent. The sinless Christ suffered in
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In Job, chapter one, verse twenty, the servant of God reacted to the disasters that happened to him with intense grief. However, through humility, Job submitted to God and continued to worship Him amid extreme adversity, as in verse twenty-one and chapter two, verse ten. Job’s later reactions continued with calamity, including doubt, anger, and
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