Carefully Examining the Text
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212 episodes
Job 23
Jesus and Job 23Job 23:12 Jesus treasured the words of God’s mouth more than his necessary food. When Jesus was tempted to turn stones to bread regarded practicing God’s word is more important than having bread to eat...
Job 22:12-30
22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? God dwells in heaven in I Kings 8:30, 39, 43, 49; Psalm 2:4; 11:4; 33:13; 103:19; 113:5.Look also at the distant stars, how high they are!- God is so exalted that He is far a...
Job 22:1-11
Job 22-27 constitute the third cycle of speeches between Job and his friends. It is unlike the others in that Bildad’s speech is extremely brief and Zophar has no speech at all. 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,-
Job 21:17-34
21:17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,- Bildad affirmed that the lamp of the wicked is put out in 18:5. The book of Proverbs stresses this as well (Prov. 13:9; 20:20; 24:20). The text of Proverbs 24:19-20
Job 21:1-16
Job's picture of the wicked man is 1. opposite of the friend's picture of the wicked man. 2. It is the opposite of what we might expect from other passages that describe the kind of behavior God blesses and curses. 3. It is...
Job 20
What does Zophar say that is right?1. 20:5 The triumphing of the wicked is short- Ps. 37:2, 9, 10, 35-36; Ps. 73:18-20; Prov. 10:2; 11:18; 13:11; 22:16.2. 20:6-7 The LORD will bring down the pride of th...
Job 19:23-29 I know my redeemer lives
I know My Redeemer livesA form of the word for redeem גאל the verb translated redeem is used to talk of the kinsman- redeemer- Lev. 25:25, 26, 33, 48, 49, 49, 49, 54; Numbers 35:12, 19, 21, 24, 25...
Job 19:13-22
19:13-20 Job a byword and outcast (17:6)Job mentions some twelve groups here that have been alienated from him. The mention of these groups show how isolated and alienated Job has become. A common theme in psalms of lament i...
Job 19:1-12
19:7 To cry, tsaaq, violence is implicitly a cry to God for help from violence. The weak party cries to God for relief from suffering (Ex. 8:12; 14:10; 22:23, 27; Deut. 22:24, 27). But I get...
Job 18 Part 2
What is the truth and error of Bildad’s words?Bildad says several things about the fate of the wicked that are elsewhere said in the Old Testament about the end of the wicked.18:5 The light of the wicked goes o...
Job 18 Part 1
Job 18:1-4 Bildad asks why Job regards him and his friends as ignorant18:5-21 Bildad's description of the wicked man Ways Bildad's description of the wicked agrees with Eliphaz’ description of the wicked<...
Job 17
What does Job 17 say?About the friends- 17:2, 4, 5, 10, 12God Himself- 17:3, 6About Job and his hopeless situation- 17:1, 7, 11, 13-16Jesus and Job 1717:2 Jesus was ...
Job 16:15-22
16:18 O earth, do not cover my blood- The earth is sometimes called to witness men’s sins (Deut. 30:15-20; Isa. 1:2; Micah 6:1-2) but here Job calls upon it to testify of His innocence. Job’s longs for ...
Job 16:1-14
16:7-14God is ferociously and relentlessly attacking Job. God is the subject of almost all the verbs in this unit. The name El, God, is used in vs. 11. Most of the verbs are 3rd masculine singular with the s...
Job 15:17-35
We seek to establish in the podcast on vs. 20-35 that many of the things said about the wicked by Eliphaz are pictured as judgments upon the wicked throughout the Bible. If that is so, what is wrong with Eliphaz speech? He is not wrong a...
Job 15:1-16
15:2 Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge- The words that Job uses are not typical of a wise man. Eliphaz will hit Job with a barrage of questions. And fill himself with the east wind? The east wind c...
Job 14:13-22
14:13 Is Sheol far enough away from God to be used as a hiding place (Ps. 139:8; Amos 9:2)? The question must be asked, Is there any time or space to hide from the wrath of the eternal, omnipresent God? Jesus is the safe hiding sp...
Job 14:1-12
Job 14:1-12 Job has been confident that he would win in a court case before God but now his mood changes and he is overwhelmed by the brevity of life. Job moves from a description of his personal situation to the people in general. ...
Job 13
The different textual views on Job 13:15The textual difficulties and translation of this verse is the most disputed in the book. 13:15 Though he slay me, yet I will trust in Him- KJVThough He slay me, ...
Job 12:13-25
12:13-25 God reverses people’s fortunes (I Sam.2:1-10; Ps. 113:5-8) and does so in the life and death of Jesus (Luke 1:46-56). Job has stressed the sovereignty of God in bringing disaster upon the greatest of me...
Job 12:1-12
12:4 I am a joke to my friends- The LXX omits lines a and b of verse 4. His friends should have provided support, but he is a laughingstock to them. This same word sechoq can mean laughter (8:21) or la...
Job 11
11:7 Can you discover the depths of God? These questions of Zophar expect a negative reply. The same Hebrew word is behind the word discover in both parts of the sentence. The NASB preserves that idea by translating this w...
Job 10:8-22
10:8 Your hands fashioned me and made me altogether,- Job 31:15; Ps. 119:73 The word hands is the same word used in vs. 7. The God whose hands formed Job is the same God from whose hands there is n...