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January 9

January 9, 2024 , 8:00 am - 4:35 pm


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Tuesday, January 9 – Job 5, 6

Study Questions:
    1. How does Eliphaz describe the “one whom God corrects”? Job 5:17
    2. From how many troubles will the Almighty deliver us? Job 5:18, 19
    3. To what did Job compare the trials he was going through? Job 6:4
    4. How did Job reveal how lonely he felt? Job 6:13-15

Commentary and Reflection:
“In interpreting the book of Job, distinction must be made between those ideas that express divine truth and the statements of personal feeling and opinion that are expressed by the various characters in the narrative. For example, the philosophy of suffering set forth by the friends of Job is not correct. It reflects the faulty thinking of the times. The bitter speeches are not in harmony with God’s will. Inspiration has recorded the mistaken notions of certain men, but that does not make these ideas correct. The reader of Job must always distinguish between the truths that God is teaching and the faulty ideas often expressed by the finite speakers.” SDABC, Introduction to Job

God’s plan is not to send messengers who will please and flatter sinners; He delivers no messages of peace to lull the unsanctified into carnal security. Instead, He lays heavy burdens upon the conscience of the wrongdoer and pierces his soul with sharp arrows of conviction. Ministering angels present to him the fearful judgments of God, to deepen the sense of need and to prompt the agonizing cry, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ Acts 16:30. But the Hand that humbles to the dust, rebukes sin, and puts pride and ambition to shame, is the Hand that lifts up the penitent, stricken one. With deepest sympathy, He who permits the chastisement to fall, inquires, ‘What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?'” PK 435

One well-known old proverb expresses the reality of one’s own pain, “No one knows what’s in the pot except the one who stirs it.” Job’s friends did not know the reality of what Job was going through. They shared the popular belief that everything we suffer is the result of our own sins: ‘If you’re going through this, it’s because you did something wrong’. It is very hard to be scolded at such a moment when what you really need is a friendly hand.

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January 9, 2024
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8:00 am - 4:35 pm
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