‘Job Chapter 16’
Then Job replied: “I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you! Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing? I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you. But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
‘Job Says God Shattered Him’
“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away. Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household. You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me. God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes. People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me. God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked. All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target; his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground. Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior. “I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust. My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes; yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure. “Earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest! Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high. My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend. “Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.
- What did Job call his friends in verse 2?
- What do Job’s friends remind the author of?
- Why did this friend think he had the right to judge Job?
- How did Jesus prove that someone who is sick has not necessarily sinned?
- What could Job have done to these friends, if they had been in his place?
- The tongue is a _.
- It can __ up or _ down.
- What does “assuaged” mean? Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.
- Instead of comforting Job, his friends added to his _.
- The pain was showing in his __.
- What was tearing Job to pieces?
- In verse 10, we see Job as a type of __.
- Who allowed this attack of Satan on Job?
- How could this have been easier for Job to endure?
- What was the greatest loss that Job felt?
- Job believed he suffered a Judgement of __.
- The sackcloth had become Job’s __ garment.
- The horn symbolizes __.
- Job felt that he had hands and a __ heart.
- Who was Job’s only true friend?
- In verse 21, Job wanted a __ relationship with God
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