Wisdom Class 2: Job 3-14

The required reading for Wednesday, May 5 is Job chapters 3-14 (that's right, 12 chapters!)

Bible Reading Assignment
For Wednesday, we'll be reviewing the first round of speeches and responses:
2) Job’s friends come to comfort and stay to accuse (2:11-31:40)
    b) The first round of speeches:
        i) Job’s lament; he wishes he had never been born (3:1-26)
        ii) Eliphaz speaks; and Job answers him (4:1-7:21)
          (1) Eliphaz: Job Has Sinned (4) Is Chastened by God (5)
          (2) Job: My Complaint Is Just (6)
              My Suffering is Comfortless (7)
        iii) Bildad speaks; and Job answers him (8:1-10:22)
          (1) Blldad: Job Should Repent (8)
          (2) Job: There is No Mediator (9) I Would Plead with God (10)
        iv) Zophar speaks; and Job answers him (11:1-14:22)
          (1) Zophar: Urging Job to Repent (11)
          (2) Job: Answers His Three Friends and Prays (12-14)


Questions to prepare you for class
1. What do men in misery and those not have in common? (Job)
2. Are trials and problems always linked to a great sin committed? (Eliphaz)
3. Does rest come after death or something else? (Job)
4. When a friend suffers, should we judge or comfort? (Job)
5. If Job understood why he suffered, would he find a little peace? (Job)
6. By living an obedient life, will God answer all your prayers? (Bildad/Job)
7. Did Job have a mediator before God? Do we? (Job)
8. If you repent and turned to God, would all be restored and forgotten? (Zophar)
9. With whom does wisdom reside? Why? (Job)
10. What is a difference between a tree and man at death? (Job)

Does Job have a right to complain?

[Names in brackets, (name), above are to assist with understanding where you find text in the Book of Job to think about a response to these questions.]

Note:  Give Us A King, The United Kingdom, by Bob and Sandra Waldron and The Holy Bible, new King James Version, Reference Edition, Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.were used in preparing the comments in this post.