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Job ultimately condemns all their counsel, beliefs, and critiques of him as false. God then appears to Job and his friends out of a whirlwind. God rebukes the three friends and gives them instruction for the remission of sin, followed by Job being restored to an even better condition than his former wealthy state (Job 42:10–17). Job is ...
This is the only curse that Job uttered, although throughout the book, he gets desperately close to cursing God (the goal expected by the Adversary in Job 2:5), but until the end he never did. [ 17 ] "His day": translated literally from Hebrew : יוֹמֽוֹ , yō-w-mōw ; [ 15 ] the context makes it clear that Job meant "the day of his birth ...
Job states that his pain is not eased by speaking or by not speaking about it, as he firmly believes God is in charge of the world and treats Job as God pleases (verses 12–14). [16] Therefore Job called for help from a heavenly figure, who will argue Job's case with God (verse 21; cf. Job 9:33; 19:25; 31:35).
Job maintains that his suffering is unjustified as he has not sinned, and that there is no reason for God to punish him. However, he does not curse God's name or accuse God of injustice but rather seeks an explanation or an account of his wrongdoing. People: Job - God Almighty the Holy One. Places: Tema - Sheba
Job laments God's treatment to him (verses 7–12) Job laments people's abandonment of him (verses 13–20) Job pleads his friends to stop rebuking him (verses 21–22) Job explores the possibility of a redeemer (verses 23–27) Job warns his friends of the judgment for mistreating him (verses 28–29) [11] "Job". From: Biblical illustration of ...
However, before that happens, God seems to preserve and prolong the lives of such wicked (verse 22), who wrongfully treat childless women and widows (verse 21), even to give them security and protection for a "long time" (verse 23). [23] Therefore Job challenges his friends to prove him wrong about the examples he has given. [23]
The whole part is framed by Job's longing for a restored relationship with God (Job 29:2) and the legal challenge to God (Job 31:35–27). [11] Chapter 30 describes Job's suffering after his world was turned upside down (in stark contrast with chapter 29 ), from enjoying "the respect of the most respectable" (Job 29:21–25) to undergo "the ...
He was the first of Job's friends to attribute Job's calamity to actual wickedness; however, he does so indirectly, by accusing Job's children (who were destroyed in the opening scenes, Job 1:19) [8] of sin to warrant their punishment (Job 8:4). [9] Bildad's brief third speech, just five verses in length, [10] marked the silencing of the ...