The Book Of Job Part 1
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The Book Of Job Part 2
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The Book Of Job Part 3
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The Book Of Job Part 4
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The Book Of Job Part 5
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The Book Of Job Part 6
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The Book Of Job Part 7
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The Book Of Job Part 8
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The Book Of Job Part 9
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JOB
As we study, put yourselves in Job place.
We’re going to separate the Christians from the religious people?
Some religious leaders teach, that if your good out weight your bad, you’re right with God.
We need to remember:
Isa 57:12 Now I will expose your so-called good deeds. None of them will help you.
Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness’s are as filthy rags;
Titus 3:5 he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.
Rom 3:10-11
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
There are people who are going on their own understanding not the Lords.
Rom 3:21-23
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
(God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the law, it was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago)
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
(We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are)
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Without the Lord, not being born again, has you can see we have no righteous.
But when we are born again, then we have the righteous of God.
Lord says bad things were going to happen to us also.
Matt 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
In this teaching we’re going to learn why it rains on the just.
Just like Job who was a righteous man, can suffer, when God allows it.
Now you can suffer bad things when you’re not walking with the Lord.
We can go through trials and tribulations with the Lord, and make it.
But those without the Lord turn to -------.
1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Perfect and upright meaning right with God, just like us.
Feared God, meaning he knows that the Lord is not playing around, so he didn’t with him.
Eschewed evil meaning stayed away from it, run from it.
2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
He lived like a shiek
4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
These verses show that Job was the spiritual head, the priest of the family, (1Peter 3:6 Sarah called Abraham “lord”)
Even with his sons and daughter already in their own homes, he would send for them.
They obey their father, not only when they were young.
In the O.T. church the head would make sure that they were right with the Lord and followed him, and that they would have forgiveness for their sins, through burnt offerings.
These offerings could be a young bull, lamb, goat, turtledove, or pigeon, but they had to be clean.
This was to show that the animal was taking the person’s place and it would be killed, and then it would be burned as a sacrifice, Job who made this sacrifice did so to restore his children’s relationship with God for their sin.
When you read the O.T. you’ll see that it all points to Jesus.
This is were Job learned about being the priest of the house and leaning from the Lord, he did what Jesus did in Heb 7:25 “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
“sons of God” means angels here in this verse,
But in:
Hos 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Also in Acts 1:8 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God”
There are many who believe that “sons of God” in Gen 6:2 means angels also, and it was the angels who populated the earth.
Gen 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
The Lord is going to show us why we go thought rough times, using this book.
And he starts right here, “satan came also among them.” We have an enemy who is after us, in Matt 13:25-28 he speaks about the enemy that came in and planted some weeds, that’s why the Lord gave us some amour to put on,
Eph 6:10-18
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
(many of us are trying to be strong in our own will power)
(I know the Lord said to it this way, but I think my way is better)
Example: Wives, they try to change their husbands instead of taking it to the Lord.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
(he said to put on the armour and just stand there)
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
(It does say to wrestle, but he also tells us how to wrestle)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
(The Lord knew we would have evil and good days)
(Men like Joshua won battles by just standing there, like when they left the walls that they had built and felt safe there, the Lord said leave these walls, and I’ll keep you safe.)
Example: Coastal Spray, depending on the Lord for a job.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Ex 14:13-14
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Ps 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
(supplication in the Spirit means, one letting the Spirit lead you, and praying in tongues)
1) Truth – Knowledge of biblical teaching.
2) Breastplate of Righteousness – Living daily, moment by moment in obedience to God.
3) Shield – Are those who take refuge in him for protection.
4) Helmet of salvation – We are secure in our great hope, of being saved.
5) The sword of the Spirit – which is Gods word.
6) Prayer – Having that one on one relationship, with the almighty God.
Then after giving us all of this, he says to stand.
2 Cor 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.
You have religious out there who are not standing, their yelling and stomping their feet at the devil.
Prayer is for God only, nowhere in the bible does it say to pray to anyone else.
So whoever you’re praying to that’s who you recognize has being a God.
Stop praying to Mary and repent, she is my sister but not my mother.
Stop yelling at the devil rebuking him, its sin.
The devil has always wanted to be God, and with you praying to him that’s what he wants.
In Matt chapter 6 the Lord taught us how to pray and he started by saying “Our Father”
not “Hail Mary full of grace”.
Read all the prayers in the bible, no one prayed to the devil.
The Lord said in James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
No were in the bible does our Shepard say for us, the sheep to go fight the lion, or bear.
7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
satan answered the Lord, "I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that's going on."
Eph 2:2 “the prince of the power of the air,”
The Lord knew were he was at; he just treated him like a child.
God is showing us here that he is Lord and satan still has to answer to him.
8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Job doesn’t fear God for nothing.
And the reason is because Job walks with him and is obedient to him.
Remember God said in verse 1 “that he was perfect and upright man”
It’s kind of hard to walk with the Lord when you’re not obeying him.
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
This is what God can do for you, when you obey, and he puts his hedge around you.
What does the “hedge” mean?
Hedge is his taking care of you protecting you and supplying all your needs.
Remember when Moses went up to get the Ten Commandments and Moses ask God who do I tell them sent me and God said:
Ex 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
What he is saying is what ever you need that’s what he is.
Isa 5:1-6
1–4 the Lord speaks about how good his vineyard looks and how he took care of it, but some of the grapes came out bitter (speaking about us).
Verses 5 and after this is what he says he’s going to do.
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
And it goes on and on in these verses.
11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
The devil is attacking God and Job, before all the angels.
What satan is saying, is because you give him all these things, you are buying his love.
Devil says; God if you take all he has, meaning processions.
He will turn from you.
The Lord allowed this to happen to him so Job could prove to the devil, and to the angels, his love for the Lord is from the heart.
Job didn’t know for what reason he was going thought these trials and tribulations.
But he did know that it wasn’t for any sin he committed, (not that he was sinless), because if the Lord would have pointed out a sin that he was committing, Job would have repented of it, because he was a righteous man.
The Lord already knew what Job was going to do.
Question: can the Lord rely on you to stay with him.
1) When you lose your job.
2) Lose your spouse or child
3) Lose your health
4) Lose the closes person or thing
The hardest part of being tested is the length of time.
People can make the time of testing hard, with Job it was his friends and family.
We should worship God for being God and not for what he can do for us.
You will see at the end of this teaching, that at the end of your trials if you stay focus on the Lord you will be bless.
God is giving Job a chance to prove the devil wrong and that he is a liar, and to the angels, that God is a loving, caring, and forgiven.
12 And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
He had to ask permission to do this to Job.
Just like in Luke 22:31 when Jesus was telling Peter he was going to deny him, he also told him that satan ask to sift him like wheat.
This ought to be a great comfort to you.
Verses 13-19 is when satan started to work on Job.
His animals were stolen and his farmhands were killed.
Fire burned up his sheep and the shepherds.
They stole his camels and killed the servants.
All his children are now dead.
20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
He tore off his robe, and shaved his head, and started to worship God.
Gen 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Josh 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
(pick someone and say if the Lord took half of this away from you, would you still worship him?)
Right now we can have a pretty good idea where we at with the Lord.
If your answer is not the right one, then we know we need to get closer to him.
If your answer is the right one, then praise God.
(speak about rewards)
Remember I told you about my little girl
This is not bragging, I did worship the Lord
It was the word that pulled me through it.
We don’t know how to worship the Lord?
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job didn’t understand why, but believed that his trial came from God.
He said “the Lord gave, and he takes away”
How many times to we do the same thing, we blame God for what happens.
Instead of blaming God, he should be praising him, like he says at the end of the verse.
22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job didn’t turn his back on the Lord, and speak evil of God.
He didn’t blame the Lord.
Chapter 2
Verses 1-3 say the same thing chapter 1 said, about Job being a righteous man.
4 And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
The devil is saying O.K. Job passed those tests.
But take his health and Job will curse you.
6 And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
Praise God that he hasn’t let the devil have us.
Can you image, there’s people out there who are in the devil hands.
But God tells the devil, you can’t take Job life.
7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
The devil has always wanted to copy the Lord in everything, and he did it here:
We know about the serpents with Moses
In Deut. Chapter 28 God tells the people what’s going to happen to them for disobeying him.
And in verse 35 God tells them the same thing the devil is doing to Job right here in this verse.
Giving Job sores from his feet to the top of his head.
Satan is a counterfeit and only those who know the word of God can see it.
Those who don’t know, can be fooled by the devil.
Just like with money, I can’t tell you if it’s counterfeit.
But someone who knows can tell you right off the bat.
Matt 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Verse 8 Job cut himself with a piece of pottery he had broken and sat in ashes.
The bible speaks about the ashes is where the dump ground was, were the dogs would eat, and Job went from being the greatest of all the men of the east (1:3), to being in ashes.
This is the reason we should be always thankful to the Lord for where we are at, and for what we have.
9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
This is the way the devil works is by using other people to tempt you.
Here it was the wife, but it could be your husband, mother, father, sons or daughters.
It’s a spiritual battle we’re in, and the devil will use anyone he can.
Why are you still holding on to your Christianity?
He didn’t curse God like his wife wanted him to do, instead he just humble himself before the Lord.
She wanted him to curse God and end his life.
10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
His wife had lost it.
Speaking like a foolish women, means “you don’t know what your saying”
With the loss of her family, possessions, and now her husband health, her faith is in ruins.
She was no longer there to help him spiritually.
1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
I believe it means emotionally. (here, and the story of Adam and Eve)
Was she a Christian wife, you think not for what she said?
What did Peter do? He denies Christ not once but 3 times.
Job responded like Jesus did in meekness.
Job is saying here, “Should I only praise God when things are good, No, we should praise him even when things are not going good”
They preachers who say if you’re suffering, you’re not right with the Lord?
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Phil 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
Look at what Jesus went through, you can’t get any more righteous than him.
Those preachers who say if you’re sick you’re not right with God.
James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
I have shown in the bible what God says about healing.
We have prophets and disciples who were sick, and God didn’t heal them.
With everything that Job lost, he did not blasphemy God with his lips.
Chapter 13:15-16 tells what a godly man he is.
15 “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him”
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. (Job knew himself not to be a hypocrite)
What Job is saying is that he wasn’t a Christian only when he was at Church or with other Christians
11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz (E-lie-fas) the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, (shoe-height) and Zophar (so-far) the Naamathite (Naa-ma-nite) for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Verse 11 says to comfort him, we’re going to see that they were afar off from doing that.
Verse 12 Says his friends didn’t even recognize him.
They showed their humility for him by tearing of their clothes, and throwing dirt on themselves.
It was their custom to mourn for 7 days when someone died.
In Gen 50:10 when Joseph father died, (Jacob) they mourned for his father seven days.
When Saul and his sons were killed, they did the same thing in 1 Sam 31:13 and they fasted seven days.
His friends fasted for seven days and nights, that’s what Job did in chapter 1:20
He worshipped the Lord.
We’re going to see that his 3 friends are lost.
Job 16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Chapter 3
To get a better understanding of chapter 3
We need to remember what God said in chapter 2:3 God said: “There is none like him in the earth” at that time.
Meaning we would have reacted in a worst way than he did,
So has we read about his reactions; just remember none of us could have stood up to Job.
At that time, But because we have this story and the Holy Spirit, we can be like Job.
Last part of the verse it says “he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.”
What God is saying even though I drop my hedge around him, he still has spiritual honesty and has not left me.
I said it before Job was not going thought these trails because of sin, right here the Lord says it “to destroy him without cause”
In chapter 1 and 2 we see the spiritual side of Job, but now he starts getting in the flesh.
But not against the Lord.
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. (Brithday)
After everything Job went through.
Lost of his servants.
Wealth
Wife not with him spiritually
Health
He wished that he wasn’t even born.
He was down, but he didn’t leave the Lord.
He cursed the day he was born, but not God.
2 And Job spake, and said,
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Job started to come down on himself as we read.
But is not the only Godly man to do this:
Jer 20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Jonah 4:3 Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
We let the problem over take what we know in the Lord?
Job is hurting so bad that he wants to die.
Through all this Job wants God to take him home.
He didn’t commit suicide.
The curse of a Christian is that we have a short memory.
He had forgotten all the blessings the Lord gave him before this.
We have to look at this has being temporary and remember that there is another life after this one.
John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And he continues with his depression.
From verse 11 to 24 it just speaks more of what we just read.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Jobs greatness fear was that the Lord would leave him,
And he feels that God has left him.
Is losing your job, a love one, your health, is this our greatness fear.
What is your greatness fear?
My fear is that my daughter is going to hell because she is rejecting the Lord.
Or should it be not having the Lord?
Remember what God said in chapter 1:22 “In all this Job sinned not”
Also in chapter 2:3 “to destroy him without cause”
When trials and tribulations come your way and things don’t look good at all, this doesn’t necessary mean you’re not walking with the Lord.
There are many promises in the bible, and we need to believe them.
Heb 13:5-6
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”.
I can’t tell my wife I’ll never leave her, no man can say this.
But God can. Amen.
“I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”
Can man kill your soul and spirit, no?
God can, so who should we fear, if we’re not born again?
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
With everything he has just said in these verses.
I have no hedge around me, no peace, and the Lord has left me.
What he is saying, what good have I gotten for following God, and I m still ending up like this?
HE HAS NOT TURNED FROM THE LORD.
Compare our problems next to Job, we can see it’s nick pick
Chapter 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
The Temanites were known for their great wisdom.
We’re going to see the wisdom of the world system now.
2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Eliphaz is saying OK, you’ve been doing all the talking; can you stop for a while so I can say something?
We’re going to see that Eliphaz thinks he’s going to set Job straight.
By showing him that he is not so righteous like he thinks he is.
3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Eliphaz tells him that “you helped all these people with their problems, you helped to make them strong in the Lord.
But now these trials or tests have come your way, you’ve lost it.
What he was telling Job was the same thing they told Jesus in Matt 27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot save.
Eliphaz is like the devil, accusing him of being a hypocrite.
Just like now when he tells us “How can you go to church or act like a Christian when you have, whatever”
6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Eliphaz is going to tell Job what he really fears, philosophy responds.
Your fear is that you’re belief, and hope, wasn’t going to be enough.
You told others to be strong, but yet you fall when it happens to you.
You were afraid of not being strong in the spirit when these things came upon you.
You didn’t know if you would be able to be that Christian.
Remember that’s not what Job said in verses 25-26
His fear was that God would leave him, and he would have to go through these trials without the Lord.
He didn’t say he wasn’t going to be strong enough when they came.
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
The question is do the righteous die? Yes they do.
But we’re not talking about salvation.
Do Christian people ever lose out in the end? Are they ever cut off?
So what he is saying to Job is: if you were innocent, these things wouldn’t be happening to you.
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Eliphaz is saying to Job, you reap what you sow.
Remember Eliphaz is giving his worldly philosophies of what is happening.
9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Eliphaz is saying: yes those who are wicked, sooner or later, young or old they will get what they deserve.
So Job you’re reaping what you sowed.
Is this what you tell someone when they just lost everything?
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
When he said it was brought to him in secret, right there that tells me it’s not from the Lord, because he has no secrets when it comes to his people.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Another reason he shows that he not a Christian, is he said fear came on me.
Every time an angel who could be Jesus also, appears to a man in the bible, the angel or Jesus would say “fear not”.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Now he’s going to tell Job about a vision he had.
When you don’t want people to question you, on something you want to do, or believe, you tell them that the Lord showed you or told you.
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
He’s telling Job; you think man has more righteousness than God?
Can a man have more holiness than him?
Could we put up with what the world is doing to our babies?
Could we put up with the way we were before we gave our hearts to the Lord?
18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Who’s his servants? The prophets, like Jonah, who fled from doing Gods will.
God does trust us to a point, because we’re just man and we will fail God,
Now he did have to kick a third of the angels out of heaven, for wanting to follow satan.
19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
If he couldn’t trust in his angels, how is he going to trust in us.
Isa 64:8 “But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay”
Our foundation was from the world, the world shows us how to live.
And that we are easily consumed by it.
Let’s remember that the word of God says in:
John 17:14-18
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
1 Cor 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1 John 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Remember he’s talking to Job.
He’s saying that people like Job, don’t make it.
They act like they have a Christian life, but when they die it’s all for nothing, no one remembers them.
This is not Christian comforting.
Chapter 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
He is saying: if you’re right with God he will get you out of this.
Which is not true because God does get us out of curtain situations, look at Peter.
The times he was throw into prison, and the Lord got him out.
But let’s look at Paul, how many times was he throw into prison and God didn’t get him out, and at those times he was right with the Lord.
So he can, but sometimes he doesn’t.
I’m sure that at the time Paul didn’t know that all those letters he wrote while in prison he was going to reach a lot of people.
That’s why we shouldn’t complain about a situation we might be in when we’re walking with the Lord.
Job didn’t know, Paul didn’t know, but God did, he has 20/20 vision.
Here’s another place to show Eliphaz doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
He saying: which saint are you going to call on now, that can hear you?
Does the bible show or speak of anyone praying to a saint?
The Ten Commandments says not to do it.
Third commandment says: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Fifth commandment says: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them
You have people who pray to Mary.
They call her the mother of God.
She is without sin.
Luke 1:46-47
46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
1 Tim 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
What he is saying here is that God doesn’t answer the foolish.
And he destroys them also.
Eliphaz has seen foolish men prosper, but then lose everything.
The children of the foolish have no one to take up for them.
Others who have nothing take from them.
Again he is wrong because the scriptures say in:
Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
While we’re on this verse let me just say
When you lend money, do it as if you are just giving it to them, expecting nothing in return,
And if you do it that way the Lord will reward greatly, either here or in heaven.
In Eccl 5:13-15 it says “saving your riches your money, can hurt you, meaning not getting blessing on what the Lord has given you to use.
Money is put into risky investments that turn bad, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one's children.
God said to invest in helping people and you will “not might” get a return.
If you give expecting something in return then you’re investing.
He didn’t promise returns in investments.
He promise returns in giving.
The last part of Luke 6:35 it says: “for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.”
In Rom 2:4 God says: he’s kind and good and patient with the lost and it is intended to turn them from sin to him.
Also in 2 Peter 3:9 it says: God is being patient for our sake, that’s why he hasn’t return yet giving everyone time to get saved whether than to be destroyed.
If God didn’t do this, how many people would be getting saved?
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Everything he just said is what happen to Job.
He is saying that trouble doesn’t just come out of nowhere, we make it.
We were born with a sin nature, and our troubles arise naturally.
He’s just constantly blaming Job for his troubles.
This man’s view of God, is totally wrong, he’s making God out to be judgmental and condemning, that he is a God of wrath.
He saw God has powerful, but not loving.
We’re going to see that his other 3 friends are going to say the same thing.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
What he is saying is, Job you are guilty, and you need to turn to the Lord.
10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
If he would have said these 3 verses and then kept quiet, he would have done the Christian thing.
He’s always doing miracles over and over.
He takes care even the earth.
He lifts those who are down, and sad to protect them.
12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Look at what Hitler did, and others.
13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
These are men who think they were too smart for God.
Men’s wisdom is foolish.
1 Cor 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
These verses are true, but not always, he can do this, he can take care of us, and he does correct us when he has to.
And when he does chastise us, we shouldn’t get mad at him.
18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Its saying here, when God does chastise us, he also delivers us in love.
21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.
What he saying here is that: Job if you repent and shape up you’ll live a long time.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
These verses are for those who need correction, in Job case this is not for him.
Remember God said he’s done nothing wrong.
We will see that everything these friends are saying: is when you’re right with God everything is a bed of roses.
Sounds good, but not true.
Verse 27 his friend is saying: We have study this to be true, and this is the way it is, listen to our counsel, because it is for your own good.
Ps 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Verse 27 his friend is saying: We have study this to be true, and this is the way it is, listen to our counsel, because it is for your own good.
This sounds like many religions, this is the truth and there is no other.
Chapter 6
1-7
Eliphaz has been very harsh on Job, by blaming him for his troubles.
He wants Eliphaz to recognize everything he’s been through.
a) Job replies again with the same sadness that he has felt.
b) Job believes that he has just cause to complain, I have suffer like no man has suffer.
8-13
He continues that the Lord would take him and end his miseries.
In verse 10 he says, he hasn’t denied the words of the Holy Ones.
That’s quite a statement.
He was confused, and had anger, which is very understandable.
In times like this we need to give a brother or sister room to have this kind of feeling, and not judge them.
He says, I’m I like a stone with no feeling.
14-21
He is saying: if only he had loving and compassionate friend, with sympathy.
But instead he has someone who is blaming him, without fear of God.
He is showing no love, instead of getting comfort, he’s receiving torment.
Job is feeling the same way Jesus did:
John 12:27 “Now is my soul troubled”
Matt 26:38 “My soul is exceeding sorrowful”
Matt 27:46 “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me”
We have a human man, who is responding just like Jesus.
Jesus didn’t take his eyes off his Father.
Job didn’t take his eyes off the Lord.
22-24
He says to his friends, have I ask for your help.
Job didn’t send for them, to deliver him from the enemy.
He tells Eliphaz teach me and I’ll listen, show me where I’ve been wrong.
25-30
He saying that he needs truth, the right words.
I don’t need your criticism.
You’re judging me for the way I reacted.
He saying, you would kick orphans when they are down.
And you wouldn’t have a problem putting down a friend.
He tells Eliphaz to look at his face, because he would be able to tell if he is lying.
But if he sees that he wasn’t lying, then he needs to repent, and he wants justice.
Job is saying that he is a righteous man, I know the difference between right and wrong, I would have repented if there was anything for me to repent of.
In chapter 6 he speaks to his friend, but now in chapter 7 he’s going to be speaking to God.
Chapter 7
Verses 1-3
Speaks about how long Job has been suffering, and in verse 3 it says; it’s been months.
But from chapter 3 to chapter 42 this all happen in one day.
Verses 4-10
Again he speaks about how sick he is.
And how his days and nights seem to just drag on and on.
Job has lost all hope of being healed, he believes his only release from pain was death.
And when he dies, he’ll just be gone.
Verse 11 Job is saying let me express my true feeling, how angry and bitter I’m feel right now,
Verse 12 he saying; I’m I a monster and you’re never leave me alone?
Verses 13-14
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
He saying if only I can go to bed and sleep it would ease his pain, but:
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
He still doesn’t know that the devil is the one doing all of this.
We know it’s not the Lord because in:
2 Tim 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear”
The very beginning of the book it tells us that the devil is doing all this to Job.
Verse 17 - What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
The answer is that man is the work of God’s hands; we are created in his image. Gen 1:27
Gods will was that all should be saved.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Cor 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Isa 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
We should ask ourselves this question.
Do you really hate sin,
Ps 97:10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil, because it’s against God?
Do you really give him 100% of yourself?
Matt 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Do you meditate on him day and night?
Ps 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Do you meditate on him day and night?
John 4:23-24
23 But the time is coming indeed it's here now when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those worship him that way.
(True worshippers will worship in spirit, not in the flesh, like we see today, but in truth meaning the heart.)
24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth."
Do you meditate on him day and night?
He saying: Lord look at me, a poor and weak creature, I’m doing nothing but complaining about my troubles, and you being a great and glorious God.
And do you have a heart to even listen to me.
These are the reasons God cares for us.
18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
He’s thinking that God is the one doing all this to him, and he says, why are you concentrating on me, testing me every day?
19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Lord can you just leave me alone, at least long enough so I can swallow, meaning take a breath.
20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
He saying I know I’m not perfect.
What do you want me to do?
And just like verse 17 says; he watches us, because of who we are.
Why are you just concentrating just on me?
When we start to think this way, and we feel that the burden is too hard.
We need to remember;
Matt 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
1 Cor 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Again he is saying, if I have sinned to bring this on me, than show me what it is so I can repent and get out of this trouble.
Because if you don’t I want be here in the morning.
Chapter 8
Verses 1-6
Bildad his other friend replies to Job.
How long are you going to blabber?
You think that the Lord is not sure of what is right
He is saying: Job quit crying, God doesn’t make mistakes, if you kids sin they deserve to die.
He’s telling Job, if you would go to the Lord at bedtime and prayed for your children this wouldn’t have happen.
Again he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, because we read in chapter 1:5 that’s just what he did.
He’s telling him to clean up his life, get right with God and he’ll restore your home and it will grow, you’ll have more than what you started out with, right now. Not true.
You can see that this man does not know what he is talking about, because God has already said that Job was pure and upright.
Eccl 8:11 “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily”
The Lord doesn’t jump when say jump.
This counsel he is giving Job is the same we hear from some preachers.
Name it, claim it, teaching.
Remember he believes if you’re right with God he will be good to you.
Do we see all Christians with everything they want? No.
Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Religious men are this way; they do not speak the word of God.
Verses 8-14
He is saying that men like Noah lived a long time about 8 to 900 hundred year, but now their only living about 2 to 300 years old.
Because of their age they knew a lot more than what we’re leaning.
Can reeds grow without a marsh, and can a marsh weeds grow without water?
Before they are cut they start flowering, but then they start too withering away before the weeds.
Eliphaz is saying can water grass grow with no water? Of course not.
And his point to Job is that neither can you be innocent.
Will trouble really happen with someone who is right with God.
He’s telling Job that he is a hypocrite, and has forgotten God.
Job is the water grass without any water.
Your hope will fall, just like a spider’s wed that is not strong at all.
Verse 15-19
Again it comes down to, that Job you are a hypocrite.
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
Bildad is saying; if you were a perfect man with God, he wouldn’t be rejecting you.
And since you’re in this place of anguish against God he’s not going to help you.
This sounds like a good verse that Bildad is using, but there’s one thing wrong with it, there is no perfect man, and he does help evil doers.
Look at us.
And even when we were lost he helped us:
Luke 6:35 “for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.”
Matt 5:45 “for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good”
21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
He’s referring to the first part of verse 20
If you were this perfect man God will put laugher and rejoicing back in you.
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
But just like the last part of verse 20, he will not help you, and he will put you to shame and you will have nothing.
Chapter 9
In chapter 8 Bildad tells Job.
Get right with God and he will restore what you had.
God will not reject the righteous.
If you’re not right with him, your hopes disappear.
Job is saying in this chapter.
I know all this.
But Job asks how can man get right with God to show his innocents.
He is saying that anyone wanting to stand up to God, they wouldn’t be able to answer not one out of thousand questions.
Remember in the N.T. in Matt, how many times the religious leaders who ask him a question, and he would come back with a question and they couldn’t answer him.
God’s wisdom is so deep, who could take him on.
Job starts praising God, he is showing how at awe he is on how powerful his God.
He says; who am I to question God?
Even if I were right I still couldn’t question him.
And even if he did answer me on my question, I would have a hard time believing that he was listening.
Job says, he’s going through this without cause.
Just like Jesus who went through suffering and pain without cause.
Again he says; I can’t even breathe, I have so much trouble.
I know he’s stronger than me, and who will even dare to take him to court?
Job says; I’m innocent, but the words I say (like verse 18) “He filleth me with bitterness” will make me sound like I’m not, and he will show me to be a sinner
Even though I’m innocent, and I know this down in my heart, I still hate my life.
Job starts to get angry with the Lord.
He saying innocent or wicked, it’s the same to him, they both die.
He speaks like he’s never had happiness in his life.
My life just comes and then it’s gone, that quick.
If I were to clean myself very clean, you would still have me to be dirty.
I can’t fight you, because you’re not a man like me.
If only there was a mediator between us, an umpire, someone who could bring us together.
This mediator could stop God from beating me, and quit his terror on me.
Then I could speak to him without fear, but I can’t.
Like I said, Job knows better than this, but it’s starting to get to him, because he still doesn’t know why all this is happening to him.
Chapter 10
He says, “I will speak in the bitterness of my soul” and he does.
Job continues to blame the Lord for all his misery, much of what he says, is not true.
Job believes because of the way he thinks that the Lord has been treating him; he’s going to hell when he dies.
Job is very confuse, he knows the Lord one way, but then he is being treated another.
Job still doesn’t know that all of this is still coming from the devil.
As we know that the Lord is not the author of confusion:
1 Cor 14:33 “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace”.
Chapter 11
Now is third friend Zophar starts to speak and he is saying the same things that Eliphaz, and Bildad said.
Is a person proved innocent just by a lot of talking?
God is punishing you far less than you deserve! He’s right.
Little does Zophar know that we are all in the same boat.
He says; can we find God? And if we do find him can we really know him? Yes.
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
2 Tim 1:12 “for I know whom I have believed”
Zophar is accusing Job of being wicked and he tells him:
If God takes your children, and takes your health, and do all these things at the same time, who can stop him?
What kind of picture is he printing of God?
But then he turns from making God seem terrible to speaking truth about him.
He’s telling Job if you get your heart right, and reach out to the Lord, and repent of your sins.
Then the Lord will accept you. True, but doesn’t apply to Job.
He tells Job you will forget all your misery.
Wrong, we can’t forget, but God can.
He’s telling Job that if you do what I have said you’ll make it.
But if you don’t then verse 20 is for you,
You will be blinded, there will be no escape, and death will follow.
1 John 2:11 “darkness hath blinded his eyes”.
Chapter 12 Job replies to his friends
You believe you know everything, but you don’t.
He tells them that when you die, your wisdom will die with you.
1 Cor 1:19-21
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1 Cor 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
He tells them, I have wisdom also, and I know I’m no better than you.
(because we’re all sinners in Gods eyes.)
My friends laugh at me, for I call on God and expect an answer.
I am a just and right with God, but you laugh at me.
Jobs point is that God has the power to do whatever he wants.
Chapter 13
Job continues to respond to his friends.
He still wants to argue to the Lord.
Job is saying I’m not inferior to you.
All you been doing to me is telling me lies.
The best thing you can do is be quiet, and listen to my case.
I’m wasting my time with you, I want to speak my case directly to God.
You are doctors of wisdom, but you tell nothing but lies, you are worthless to me.
He tells them if only you could be silent! That's the wisest thing you could do.
Prov 17:28 “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise”
Being quiet would be your best wisdom.
You think God needs you to lie and twist the truth for him, on what you want me to believe?
He says to them, you think you can fool God like you fool men?
This so called truth you are telling, have about as much value as ashes.
Your defense is so easily broke, like a pot of clay.
He believes he has a right to argue with God.
Even if God kills him, who else can I go to?
God is not going to kill me, because I’m a godly man.
Job is ready to say what is on his mind.
He says; remove your heavy hand, and don’t terrify me with your awesome presence.
Job says; show me my rebellion and my sin.
He saying; he’s a nobody.
Chapter 14
Job is saying; life is short.
He says; Who can make clean, when you are unclean?
And he says; no one, wrong.
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
He saying you take better care of the trees than us.
Then he ask the question that even today many still ask, where are we when we die?
When you read and you see the words Paradise, Abraham’s bosom, grave, sheol, hades, prison, bottomless pit, death, all these refer to a temporary hell.
Let me show you that there is a hell:
Acts 2:31 He (King David) seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Rev 20:14-15
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Let me show you were the falling angels are going:
2 Pet 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Explain: Paradise and prison
Luke 16:22-24
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Luke 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence.
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
1 Peter 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
The final designation for the devil and his demons, and those who do not want to give their lives to the Lord, is called Lake of Fire.
Acts 7:59-60
59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
1 Thess 4:15-18
15) We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died. (sleeping) 16) For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the Christians who have died (who are sleeping) will rise from their graves. 17) Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever. 18) So encourage each other with these words.
1 Thess 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Job is sending mix messages, some of what he says is true, but much of it is not.
And it’s because of the anger and not understanding why he’s going through these tests.
To show this: in verse 10 he says: “When a man dies, where does he go?”
But then in verse 14 he says: “After he dies, he will wait for his change to come”
Chapter 15
Eliphaz is still saying the same thing.
Wicked people don’t prosper and Job is in that place.
He still is calling Job a hypocrite.
He speaks about how bad it’s going to be for the wicked.
Chapter 16
Job tells Eliphaz that they came to comfort him, but they did a miserable job at it.
Job also says that if he was in their shoes, he would be helping them though their grief.
Job believes that God hates him.
And in verse 11 Job says; “God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.”
He continues to speak about how bad the Lord is treating him.
We see that he is very disgusted with his friends.
He’s crushed because he believes that God has left him.
So as we read how Job responds to the Lord, remember he’s hurting pretty bad.
Job says; if only there was someone in heaven who knows the truth about him.
Chapter 17
Job continues to say he’s innocence.
He continues to complain, that he’s not going to live much longer.
Again he’s telling them that they have no wisdom.
He is saying that his good days are behind him.
He’s hoping that the night is about to turn to day.
He says that the hope he has is going to go to the grave with him.
And he says; the only family that’s going to show up when he dies is the worms.
Job has lost any hope of surviving the things he is going through.
Job feels like he has hit rock bottom, his only relief is dying.
Nobody is there to comfort him.
This is a true story, becoming a Christian doesn’t mean you’re going to live happy ever after.
This is why we need God’s grace, to keep it together, in his strength not ours.
Marriage, job, children, being a Christian, we need the Lord.
If we didn’t ever have to go through any of this, how would we grow?
Look at a child when their young, if they’re doing the same thing when they become adults, how does that look?
We can see that Job is not looking beyond the grave.
Chapter 18
Bildad replies to Job and says; do you think you’re talking to animals, you think we’re dump and stupid.
Bildad is not interested in helping Job, but for him to shut-up and admit that he’s sinful.
And Bildad still calling him wicked.
In verse 5 Bildad say; if you don’t prosper you’re wicked.
He saying; Those who do Gods will have prosperity and good health.
But if you suffer, you’re not in Gods will.
2 Cor 12:9-10 “Paul is saying that Jesus said unto him.”
9 Each time he said, "My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. 10 That's why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Verses 8-10
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Bildad is saying here this is what the wicked do.
Ps 9:15 The nations have fallen into the pit they dug for others. Their own feet have been caught in the trap they set.
Prov 26:27 If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead.
Prov 28:10 Those who lead good people along an evil path will fall into their own trap, but the honest will inherit good things.
These all say the same thing that when someone is digging a hole for righteous man or harm him, trap him, the very thing the unrighteous is trying to do the righteous man, is going to fall on him.
And he says more about had bad it is to be wicked.
He says; this is what you get for being a sinner.
He says; you don’t even know God.
Has we see that Bildad has made two mistakes,
One, none of what he is saying applies to Job. This is for lost people.
Two, he has the wrong motives.
Chapter 19
Job response to Bidad.
How long are you going to keep on putting me down.
By tormenting, crushing, insulting, and saying I’m wrong.
Prov 12:18 Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing.
Prov 15:4 Gentle words are a tree of life; a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.
Matt 5:11-12
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Job is telling them that if he was wrong, they have been unable to show him.
He says you have so much wisdom, then show me were I’m guilty.
Bildad is acting like some preachers and teachers we have, believing you can’t question what they say, because of what it says in:
1 Chron 16:221 "Do not touch my chosen people, and do not hurt my prophets."
People might not listen to me because I have no initials behind my name, or a title in front of my name. Look at Jesus he was just a carpenter.
Job speaks about how everyone has turned against him, even his own wife.
He says I’m skin and bones, and I’m just barely living.
He did get one of his wishes, verse 23 “Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Job had no idea that his words would survive him.
But God knew this was a man that he wanted everybody to notice.
Job is up and down on what he says, but the next few verses, Job shows that he knows who the Lord is.
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Job knows he has a redeemer.
This verse right here shows that Jesus is God.
And that he will return in the last days. Amen
Today may seem dark and terrible but:
We have a future that is brighter than what we can imagine.
Like Job we will experience evil being defeated by God.
IN THE END, GOD WINS, AND SO DO WE. AMEN.
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job knew a lot more than what we think.
He knew that his body would go to the grave, and the worms would probably eat his body.
But he also knew that he would see God through his soul.
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Praise God, we are going to see the Lord, no matter what happens to our body.
Then he tells them the same thing he said in chapter 18:8-10 “keep trying to make me look bad in front of God, and see what he’s going to do with you.
Chapter 20
Pretty much what Zophar is saying in this chapter.
The wicked don’t live long.
Their power is only temporal.
And that Gods judgment falls hard on the wicked.
He insults Job by telling him he took advantage of others, because of his wealth.
And he says; Job your pleasures are over. Your wickedness has caught up with you.
We know that what he is saying about Job is not true.
There’s times when things are said about us, we let it go.
Chapter 21
He strongly replies to Zophar, to listen and have patients with him.
And then when I’m finish, you can say what you have to say.
Job says his complaint is with God not man.
He’s telling them to quit responding to him because of the way he looks, (very sickly).
Even he is frightened at the way he looks.
Job responds to what Zophar said in chapter 20 about the wicked don’t live long.
From verse 7-19 he says; they do live a long time and enjoy the pleasures of this world, but not the pleasures of God.
Zophar you say that God will punish the children for the parents sins.
But Job says; punish the ones who sin.
Sin is passed down from generation to generation, until a Christian breaks it.
Job tells him, how can you come and comfort me, when everything you tell me is wrong.
(the wicked and rich die young)
Chapter 22
Eliphaz is still excusing Job of being wicked.
He starts telling Job how he misused or took advantage of the things he had.
He tells Job in verse 12-14 you do these things because you think he can’t see you.
Verses 17-18 the people say “We don’t need God, we have everything we need”
And in verse 20 he says; we haven’t lost all of our substance, but you have.
These men remind me of the religious leaders in;
Matt 23:27-28
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
They are saying that if you have great wealth, you’re right with God, if you’re not?
Let’s look at John the Baptist? And Jesus.
We have teaching like that today.
Over and over they said, “If you’re right with God, you can have all these material things”
They’re saying if you have all these thing, that will make you happy.
(is this true? Do these things really make you happy)
Verses 27-30 have partial truth and some not true.
27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you, (James 5:16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.) and you will fulfill your vows to him.
28 You will succeed in whatever you choose to do, (Matt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.) and light will shine on the road ahead of you.
29 If people are in trouble and you say, 'Help them,' God will save them. (sometimes yes, and sometimes no.) example: II Th 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he (its not they) eat.
30 Even sinners will be rescued; they will be rescued because your hands are pure."
Ezek 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Acts 20:26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
Chapter 23
Job replies. Still complaining.
He says; I can’t find God, but he knows that he is the one who can help him.
In verses 10-12
10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
He says: That God knows everything about him, when he has examines me, he’ll know that I’m innocent.
You know that the Lord already knows all about you, so instead of him checking you out, you need to check your own self
2 Cor 13:5 Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith.
My foot hath held his steps, (Ps 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.)
He’s done Gods will. He has done the things God has told him to do.
He lives by Gods word more than food. (Matt 4:4 “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”)
Then he goes back to his complaining.
Chapter 24
He is still complaining.
That God doesn’t listen.
The wicked take advantage of the poor.
How they do their evilness at night.
God is allowing so much wrong to take place.
He knows that God could stop all of this, but he doesn’t.
But there is one thing constant with Job, he trusts the Lord, he doesn’t understand but he trusts in God.
But they will get what they deserve.
Chapter 25
Bildad doesn’t attack Job and he just speak about how powerful God is.
Verse 2 “Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.”
He’s talking about heaven and how God kicked the falling angels out.
Just like Joshua said to the people of Israel as being the head of the nation, the same is said for the head of the house.
He should clean his house, Josh 24:15 “but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
He points to God if we want to be right with him. (We know how to be clean with him).
Chapter 26
Job comes back in responds to what Bildad said, with 6 questions, verses 1-4
1) How hast thou helped him that is without power?
What motive did you have when you came, was it to help or hurt?
1 Cor 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
(The fire will show if your help was from the Lord, or it was worthless like these 3 friends)
2) How savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
What did you do, to give me strength?
The bible says to lift one another, and to pray.
3) How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom?
Did you give me worldly wisdom or Godly?
Ps 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
The Lord is showing here that if we walk with them, we’ll in up standing with them, and then they have us because now we’re sitting with them.
4) How hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
This is mainly for preachers and teachers; where did you receive wisdom?
1Thes 2:4 “For we speak as messengers from God, trusted by him to tell the truth”
1 Cor 1:17 For Christ didn't send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel; and even my preaching sounds poor, for I do not fill my sermons with profound words and high sounding ideas, for fear of diluting the mighty power there is in the simple message of the cross of Christ.
Acts 20:27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
5) To whom hast thou uttered words?
6) Whose spirit came from thee?
Who gave you the words to say?
Was it the spirit of the Lord.
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
There are 3 kinds of spirit
Holy Spirit
1 Cor 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Unclean spirit
Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Man spirit (human)
1 Cor 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Verses 5-14 Job praises the Lord.
Chapter 27
Job is just continuing on what he’s been saying all along.
Job starts off speaking highly of God, by saying he’s a living God.
But then he starts speaking harshly of him, by saying, he has denied him his justice.
And that God has made his soul bitter.
But as long as I live I will have the spirit of God in me.
He will never tell his friends that they are right, and he’ll die saying I’m innocent.
In verse:
6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
What Job is saying here is that he’s not wrong, so it must be God.
Job is speaking like the Jews believes, and that there are made right with God by keeping the laws. (speak about the movie “Jesus of Nazareth”)
Rom 10:1-5
1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
(I know that they want to be right, but they have been mislead by there leaders)
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
(They don't know the true way of getting right with God, refusing to accept Jesus as the Christ, so they believe in their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law, just like people do today.)
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
(He didn’t say it was the end of the law, but it’s not what saves you now, it’s Jesus)
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
(Moses wrote the law's to have people right with God, which requires that you don’t brake not one of them, but we couldn’t do keep them, so God gave us Jesus)
In verse:
Verse 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Matt 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Is being popular in the world, worth going to hell, giving up your soul.
Or walk with the Lord and believe what he says in his words.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
Job is speaking about the wicked in the rest of the chapter.
Chapter 28
Job is going to be speaking about wisdom and understanding.
He says that men know how to;
And he speaks about much more of what man can do.
And then he says, but man cannot find wisdom and understanding, or buy it.
In Matt 25 speaks about 10 vigins.
And in Acts 8 it speaks about Simon.
He says that seeking wisdom through man’s effort is a waste of time.
We know to find wisdom is to find God and to look at life through him.
Understanding is to knowing that it rains on the just and the unjust, and not be confuse when things happen to us or around us.
We respond to life’s trials the way God would have us to.
Prov 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1 Cor 1:24 “Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”
1 Cor 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Prov 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
We can buy the wisdom of the world, by going to college and getting all the Ph.D. you want, but it won’t give you Gods wisdom.
The only way you can get this wisdom, is by the Lord.
Matt 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona (Peter) for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Prov 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Chapter 29
Job talks about himself and what a godly man he was.
And how even men of high authority, listen to him.
How he helped those in need, the poor.
So he’s talking about his former glory.
Chapter 30
And now in this chapter he speaks about men who are less than his dogs.
Who don’t even listen to him.
Job, who once had respect, is now rejected.
His strength and joy has been replaced with diseases, and humiliation.
Songs that his family once enjoyed, was no longer.
Chapter 31
Job is going to justify himself and prove that he’s not guilty.
He’s going to show that he wasn’t just righteous on the outside like the religious leaders, but that he was righteous on the inside also.
Verses 1-4
Job says one of the sins he not going to do, is lust.
He keeps his heart pure by guarding his eyes.
He knows every step I take, he sees everything I do.
Any false steps of sin, God takes notices them more than we do.
He knows that God can bring misery to him for doing these sins.
Verses 5-23
If I have lied or deceived, let God check out my heart, and know that I’m innocent.
If I have gotten off of Gods will for me, or if I have sinned with my heart because of my eyes, or because of any other sin.
He willing to give it all up if he is found guilty, and let others have what he has sowed.
And if I’m guilty and mention other sins, how could he face God.
Verses 24-34
Then he talks about if he done any of these other sins.
Have I ever tried to hide my sins like Adam (fig leaves)
He says that these sins should not go unpunished.
Did I do any of these sins and I was afraid to even come out of my home.
Verse 35-40
His wishes are that someone would hear him, that God would answer him.
He wished that his enemies would put into writing their charges of sin against him.
He says that he would carry these charges against him on his back, like they did back then.
Just like they did with Jesus with the sign on the cross. (King of the Jews)
Then he could tell them exactly what he has done and why.
Chapter 32
Now a new person comes on the scene and his name is Elihu (E-lie-you), and in the next 6 chapters he’s going to speak.
Elihu is a saved relative.
The reason he must be saved is because at the end of the book, God tells his three friends that he was angry with them, for they had not spoken of God the things that are right, like Job did.
Elihu is going to try to be that mediator that Job has been asking for.
We see that the reason Elihu hasn’t said anything is because he is the youngest of Job 3 friends, we see that in verse 4
Remember in chapter 27:6 Job says; “My righteous” so his friends stop talking to him, because they see that Job is trying to justify himself, and by doing that, he is saying that it must be God that is wrong.
I see that these three men are just like the religious leaders in the N.T. the Pharisees and Scribes, We know that they were lost because look at the way they treated Jesus, and look at Nicodemus.
Elihu was angry with Job.
Because Job didn’t want to admit that he was wrong, and accept his punishment from the Lord.
Elihu was also angry with Jobs three friends, because they accused him, before they even knew what was going on.
We see that Elihu had wisdom here; he respected his elders, and kept his opinion to himself.
He saying the elders should be wiser and should teach, and that’s the way it should be.
But there are some elders who are not under the inspiration of God; sometimes they don’t understand the judgment of God.
He saying now listen to what I have to say.
I was patience, I listen to what you had to say, (speaking about his 3 friends) and none of you had the answer for Job.
You are saying that God is doing this to him and not man.
He says that if Job wasn’t speaking to me, and I would not have answered him like you have.
They were left speechless.
He is saying that the spirit within him is ready to speak.
He is also saying that just because Job is a well respected man and has a title of being the greatness man of the entire east, I’m no respecter of persons.
Acts 10:34 “God is no respecter of persons”
And he says that if he was a respecter of people that God would take him.
Chapter 33
He saying now Job listens to me, because I am from the Lord.
I’m what you ask for, that mediator, I’m a man like you.
Remember that’s what Job was asking for in chapter 9
Can this man be a mediator?
1 Tim 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
So we see that there is no one who can speak for you to God, no saint, no women, no person, or statue. You can’t be prayed out of hell like some religions preach.
To be a perfect mediator, you have to be both man and God.
Since I’m a man like you, you don’t have to be afraid of me.
Elihu is already making a mistake.
This is why he couldn’t be a mediator.
He tells Job; you said that you never sinned.
Job never said that he didn’t have sin
Job did make statements, like he was without sin, in chapters 9:17, 10:7, 32:1, but in chapter 7:20 Job does admit of being a sinner.
He’s heard Job say that he was Gods enemy, chapter 13:24.
Remember Job believes that God is the one doing all this to him.
He tells Job you are wrong for making these kinds of statements, because the Lord is perfect.
Why fight with him, he doesn’t have to give anyone an excuse for whatever he does, because he is just and righteous with all.
He tells Job;
God has shown himself to us over and over, but many don’t see it,
2 Cor 4:4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don't understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
Because they don’t want to give up their life.
He has done it in dreams or a vision, while we sleep; the Lord opens our ears and gives us instruction.
So you can change from your will, to his, and take away the pride of you not needing him to make it.
In verse 18 “He keepeth back his soul from the pit”
Rev 20:3 “And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”
It also says; “his life from perishing by the sword.”
Matt 25:46 "And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life."
Elihu is speaking about salvation here 22-26
He believes that Job is dying and he needs a savior.
22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Rom 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death”
Who’s trying to destroy us: John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
He says; We need a messenger, to show us what is right
He says; Who is going to keep us from going to hell?
Who is our ransom?
Matt 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Elihu tells him in verse
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
That’s what we call born again.
2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
We see here that a man has to pray to God, to repent for depending on his own righteous, and the Lord will be more than happy to come into him, and give the man, Gods righteous.
He says; God is always doing this for us.
30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
He was dead and now he’s alive in Christ. This is the resurrection.
Elihu is saying; if you have anything to say, say it now, because I want to see you being right.
Chapter 34
Elihu up to here has been pretty much right on what he has been saying.
But now he starting to accuse Job just like his 3 friends were doing.
Elihu says that Job said; “Why waste time trying to please God”
Job didn’t say that about himself, he said it about wicked people.
Elihu is like Job, he’s saying things that are true, and some things that are not.
He’s telling Job; if the Lord had hated righteous how could he keep order in his kingdom
Same thing with the lord of the house, if you’re not walking in righteousness, how can you keep in order your little kingdom the Lord has given you?
And how can you blame God who is the most just of us all, this is what he’s telling Job.
In verse: He’s telling Job
18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?
You wouldn’t say these things to a king or princes, because they would have your head chop off.
He says, you need to fear God more than them.
How could you blame God for these things, when God looks at us the same.
He saying that God sees everything and that there is no place you can hide.
This also proves that there is no such thing as, when you die you’re just dead, and the Lord can’t find you.
In verse: 29
When God chooses to be quiet.
Can satan or trials of the world give you trouble?
If God turns from you, or even a whole nation, who can make him look on you again,
Elihu also tells Job to tell God “I have taken my punishment, and I will stop from here on.
He is saying; Job you have added being rebellious, you shake your fist to God, and you are speaking angry words against him.
Chapter 35
Elihu tells Job.
Do you think you’re right, by saying; you’re right and God is wrong.
Elihu is accusing Job of things he didn’t say.
Job says onto the wicked. (Chapter 21:15) Who is God, and why should we obey him? What will it get me for being righteous?
He wasn’t speaking of himself.
Then Elihu says, I will answer you and you’re 3 friends.
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; (Jobs wickedness has hurt others) and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. (you might have help others.)
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they (men) make the oppressed to cry: (men like Pharaoh and Judas) they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. (This is the devil, that’s what he’s called in the period of the tribulation, but he’s not called the Almighty like God is)
The crying out of these men, isn’t in worship to God, it’s because the trouble they have gotten into.
It’s not the same kind of crying that King David did.
Then he says in verses 10-11
That the wicked don’t ask, where is God?
To gives comfort, and the one who gives us more wisdom than the animals.
These evil men cry out but there is no answer, because their heart is in the wrong place.
God is saying he doesn’t hear wicked men.
That’s why I tell lost people, that their prayer goes no higher than the ceiling.
Elihu is telling Job even dough you can’t see God now like you want; you will see him on that judgment day.
This is not a judgment of salvation.
Then again he starts calling Job a fool.
Chapter 36
Elihu continuing speaking.
Remember chapter 33:6 Elihu said “I’m that mediator you been wishing for”.
He’s no longer acting as a mediator, because he is saying “I will tell you, so this is not from God.”
Elihu says; he has to defend God.
In verse
4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
Elihu is speaking very highly of himself.
This is what happens when men get puffed up on themselves.
Then he says; That the Lord will receive anyone, who calls on him.
He doesn’t bless the wicked, but blesses the righteous.
Elihu is telling Job how God deals with the righteous, how we’ll be seating on thrones, like kings, and how it’s going to be forever.
He says; that if a Christian starts to sin, then he points out their trouble that they are in, he shows them what’s right, and tells them to repent from their unbelief.
If they listen and start obeying him, they will prosper, (doesn’t mean material things) and they will live rejoicing the Lord.
Then in verse: He’s speaking about Christians
12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Now we’re talking about the righteous, if they don’t repent, and obey, they will lose the battles that confront them for not having the word of God to stand on. Eph 6.
1 John 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, (ask for forgiveness) and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Mark 3:28-29
28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
Now he’s speaking about lost people in 13-14
13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Just like it says in chapter 35:9-10 they won’t seek God for help, they’ll go to the bank or to psychiatrist, and they’ll go to a friend, or a priest or pastor, instead of seeking God first.
14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
The lost.
Back to the Christian
15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
He’ll free the righteous from their troubles, and tells them “Let those who hear, hear”
Matt 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matt 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Matt 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Elihu goes on to say; I just told you what God will do for the righteous.
But the Lord is doing to you, what he does to the wicked.
He’s condemning Job, and we know that Job is innocent.
Instead of doing what:
2 Cor 1:3-4
3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Now he starts cautioning Job and tells him not keep his anger at God.
Be wise and get right with God, so his anger will be turned away from him.
There is no escaping his judgment with money or gold, you cannot use them to deliver yourself from the judgment of God.
And he says that even the darkness is not dark enough that God can’t find you.
He is also telling Job, to leave sin, and to except the suffering.
If we remember this what Moses did when he left the Egyptians to be with his people.
Elihu tells Job; that God is all powerful, and there is no one who can teach like he does.
Who can tell him that he is wrong on his chastisement or his judgment?
Elihu says; Give God the glory for all he has done, so men can see, and their able to see it from a distance.
Meaning what it says in 1 Cor 13:12 “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part”
From verse 27 to Chapter 37 verse 13
I’m not absolutely such of what these verses mean.
I know that he’s speaking about how powerful God is.
But they have some who say he’s speaking about tribulation period.
What it means exactly I’m not sure, but either way it shows Gods power.
Then verses 14-18 Elihu is asking Job, Do you know why God can control all of this?
He’s telling Job, stop and look at all what God can do.
Elihu says: Job since you know so much teach us how we should approach God, because we don’t know how to speak to him, because we know so little about him.
Elihu says; we can’t see the Lord, because the clouds are dark and thick.
We cannot understand the power of God, but we know he is just and merciful, and he doesn’t destroy us.
We do fear him, and those who think they have great wisdom, that doesn’t mean anything to him.
Chapter 38
The Lord speaks to Job.
What the Lord is saying, who is misusing my words.
Instead of his words bringing light, it’s bringing darkness.
Job has been saying along that he wants to talk to God face to face.
Now the Lord does talk to Job in a whirlwind, and I’m sure it was a deep voice.
I’m sure Job is having second thoughts about facing God.
God is saying: you wanted some answers from me, demanding them, well here I’m, but instead of me answering you, you’re going to answer me
The rest of Chapter 38-39 the Lord ask Job several questions, and he couldn’t answer not one.
So the Lord is saying who are you that I have to account to you.
Chapter 40
God is saying, Job do you still want to argue with me?
All of the sudden Job who has been saying all along that he was innocent, is now saying I’m wretched.
Now that he is confronted by God, he can see that what it says in Isa 64:6 is true “all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags”
Job has said once and even twice that he wanted to confront God, but now he saying: I will cover my mouth, and I will say no more.
The Lord is telling Job, be a man now, you said these things, so let’s see if you’re going to stand behind them.
I will ask you a question, and you will answer me.
Are you going to keep on talking about me, putting down my justice, and condemning me, so you can show your right?
Job are you as strong as I’am? Do you have a voice of authority?
Job if you are then show yourself to be like me, be perfect in all that you do, have the light of glory, show your splendor.
God is saying be like me and show your anger, because when I do it, things happen.
Let’s see what you can do with those who are proud and don’t need you.
Bring justice to the wicked, and put them in their place.
Show them the dust they came from, so they can hide their face in humility.
In verse 14-24 God tells Job
14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
If you can do that Job, then I will allow that your own righteousness is enough.
You don’t need me as a savior, because you have been right, and I have been wrong.
15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
What we read here is that he made man and animals at the same period, so that does away with man evolve from apes.
This animal is one that we don’t know about, because the description the Lord uses in these verses, doesn’t sound like any animal that I’ve heard of, some translations say that the word behemoth means hippopotamus. We’ll see that it’s not.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
Have you even seen a tail of a hippopotamus, it’s very little; I wouldn’t say it looks like a cedar tree.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
The Lord says that this animal is the biggest, strongest he made.
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
I would have to say that is some big creature. I believe he’s speaking about a dinosaur.
Remember in my teaching called God and Science the scriptures show that there were dinosaurs.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
No one can catch this animal.
Here’s another animal just like the one we just read about.
And this is not a crocodile.
Chapter 41
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan(la-fy- a- fan) with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed iron? or his head with fish spears?
8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Why is the Lord all of the sudden starts talking about these great creatures.
What he is showing is that if a creature this mighty, strong, and big, was made by God, then what does this say about the creator?
10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
If no one can stand before this animal, then can anyone or anything conquer our Lord?
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
I owe no one, because everything is mine.
In the rest of the verses it speaks about the Leviathan(la-fy- a- fan) again on how powerful it is.
We also see that this animal is a fire breathing dragon, verses 19-21
19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Isa 27:1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (we know it comes from the sea because of verse 15 it says that it had scales)
And in Isa 30:6 it says that this Leviathan is also a fiery flying serpent
These verses also have a spiritual meaning.
The word serpent and dragon are use in scriptures, meaning the devil.
And if we look down at verse 34 you can see that spiritually these verses are also are speaking about the devil.
34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king (devil) over all the children of pride.
You might think I’m crazy for believing the word of God.
Because I say there were fire breathing flying dragons.
When I gave my life to the Lord, I said, I would believe everything in his word, because if I didn’t, it says in Heb 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please him”
Chapter 42
1 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Lord I know you can do anything you want.
And no one can hide anything from you.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Lord I’m the one, who has said things that were foolish,
I said things that I knew nothing about.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job is saying, Lord you have demanded of me to speak, and now I’m going to answer you.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Job says Lord I have heard of you by listening about you.
But now because of what I have been through, I can see you.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
He has already said in chapter 40:4 that he was vile (wretched) and now he is saying that he hates himself, and that he needs to repent in dust and ashes.
Remember that’s what they did when they were in sorrow and humility.
7 And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
The Lord was satisfied with what Job had said and done.
But now the Lord turns and says to the other 3 men, my anger is against you and the way you have misused my words.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
The Lord tells them what to do.
Go to Job and make a burnt offering for yourselves.
And I will accept your offering, through Job (just like he did for his children).
And I will not destroy you like I should, for the things you have said.
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.
10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
After the Lord accepted his prayer for his friends, he gave Job twice has much as he had before.
What would have happen if Job had not forgiven his friends?
How can the Lord bless you when you are holding a grudge against someone?
When we thing we’ve had a great lost, it says in:
Phil 3:7-9
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(The things that I though was important to me, now mean nothing to me, because of Christ)
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
(All these things mean nothing to me, when I compare it to the excellency knowledge of the Lord)
(We need to forget what we though was important, and now look at it as trash, to give Jesus our all)
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
(And in doing this, we can now become one with him, no longer thinking we’ve done something to deserve what we have in him)
1 Peter 3:14, 17-18
14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye (If we suffer for the glory of God, happy are we) and be not afraid of their (the ones who do evil) terror, neither be troubled;
Job didn’t do this, but the Lord has shown us through this book and these scriptures how to handle trials and tribulations. We do not have to go through it like Job?
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
(Sometimes it is the will of God that we suffer, unlike what other religions say)
(It is better that we suffer when we’re in Gods will, than out of it)
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
(Look at how Jesus suffered for us, and he was in the will of the Father, he died and then made alive in the Spirit, so at the end, we will always come out on top)
1 Peter 4:12-13
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
(Some of us think that when something goes wrong in our life, we’ve done something wrong, not always true, and don’t be surprise when it does happen.)
(But when we do go through them remember Ps 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.)
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
(This is what’s wrong with Christianity no one wants to partake of the suffering)
(Again it’s saying at the end we will be exceeding glad)
(Bottom line trust in God)
Verses 11-17 shows how the Lord gave everything back to Job.
In closing:
So far what we have learned about the devil is:
He can’t foresee the future, he said Job would curse God, he didn’t.
We’ve learn that he can’t be everywhere at the same time, back in the first chapter God ask the devil where have you been? And the devil said I’ve been down at earth so he can’t be everywhere at the same time like God can.
The devil isn’t all knowing, because if he was, he wouldn’t have entered into this contest with the Lord, knowing he was going to lose at the end, and Job was going to be blessed at the end, and that’s one thing the devil doesn’t want is for us to get blessed.
We have also learned that the devil can’t break through Gods protection around us, that’s why he had to get permission to attack Job.
So is the devil equal to God in power? NO.
If Job after going through all of this and ended up praising God, then we should do the same.
1 Peter 1:6 So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while.
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Ps 91:9-16
If you make the Lord your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter, no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home. For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go. They will hold you up with their hands so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone. You will trample upon lions and cobras; you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet! The Lord says, "I will rescue those who love me.I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation."
As we study, put yourselves in Job place.
We’re going to separate the Christians from the religious people?
Some religious leaders teach, that if your good out weight your bad, you’re right with God.
We need to remember:
Isa 57:12 Now I will expose your so-called good deeds. None of them will help you.
Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness’s are as filthy rags;
Titus 3:5 he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.
Rom 3:10-11
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
There are people who are going on their own understanding not the Lords.
Rom 3:21-23
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
(God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the law, it was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago)
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
(We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are)
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Without the Lord, not being born again, has you can see we have no righteous.
But when we are born again, then we have the righteous of God.
Lord says bad things were going to happen to us also.
Matt 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
In this teaching we’re going to learn why it rains on the just.
Just like Job who was a righteous man, can suffer, when God allows it.
Now you can suffer bad things when you’re not walking with the Lord.
We can go through trials and tribulations with the Lord, and make it.
But those without the Lord turn to -------.
1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Perfect and upright meaning right with God, just like us.
Feared God, meaning he knows that the Lord is not playing around, so he didn’t with him.
Eschewed evil meaning stayed away from it, run from it.
2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
He lived like a shiek
4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
These verses show that Job was the spiritual head, the priest of the family, (1Peter 3:6 Sarah called Abraham “lord”)
Even with his sons and daughter already in their own homes, he would send for them.
They obey their father, not only when they were young.
In the O.T. church the head would make sure that they were right with the Lord and followed him, and that they would have forgiveness for their sins, through burnt offerings.
These offerings could be a young bull, lamb, goat, turtledove, or pigeon, but they had to be clean.
This was to show that the animal was taking the person’s place and it would be killed, and then it would be burned as a sacrifice, Job who made this sacrifice did so to restore his children’s relationship with God for their sin.
When you read the O.T. you’ll see that it all points to Jesus.
This is were Job learned about being the priest of the house and leaning from the Lord, he did what Jesus did in Heb 7:25 “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
“sons of God” means angels here in this verse,
But in:
Hos 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Also in Acts 1:8 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God”
There are many who believe that “sons of God” in Gen 6:2 means angels also, and it was the angels who populated the earth.
Gen 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
The Lord is going to show us why we go thought rough times, using this book.
And he starts right here, “satan came also among them.” We have an enemy who is after us, in Matt 13:25-28 he speaks about the enemy that came in and planted some weeds, that’s why the Lord gave us some amour to put on,
Eph 6:10-18
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
(many of us are trying to be strong in our own will power)
(I know the Lord said to it this way, but I think my way is better)
Example: Wives, they try to change their husbands instead of taking it to the Lord.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
(he said to put on the armour and just stand there)
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
(It does say to wrestle, but he also tells us how to wrestle)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
(The Lord knew we would have evil and good days)
(Men like Joshua won battles by just standing there, like when they left the walls that they had built and felt safe there, the Lord said leave these walls, and I’ll keep you safe.)
Example: Coastal Spray, depending on the Lord for a job.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Ex 14:13-14
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Ps 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
(supplication in the Spirit means, one letting the Spirit lead you, and praying in tongues)
1) Truth – Knowledge of biblical teaching.
2) Breastplate of Righteousness – Living daily, moment by moment in obedience to God.
3) Shield – Are those who take refuge in him for protection.
4) Helmet of salvation – We are secure in our great hope, of being saved.
5) The sword of the Spirit – which is Gods word.
6) Prayer – Having that one on one relationship, with the almighty God.
Then after giving us all of this, he says to stand.
2 Cor 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.
You have religious out there who are not standing, their yelling and stomping their feet at the devil.
Prayer is for God only, nowhere in the bible does it say to pray to anyone else.
So whoever you’re praying to that’s who you recognize has being a God.
Stop praying to Mary and repent, she is my sister but not my mother.
Stop yelling at the devil rebuking him, its sin.
The devil has always wanted to be God, and with you praying to him that’s what he wants.
In Matt chapter 6 the Lord taught us how to pray and he started by saying “Our Father”
not “Hail Mary full of grace”.
Read all the prayers in the bible, no one prayed to the devil.
The Lord said in James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
No were in the bible does our Shepard say for us, the sheep to go fight the lion, or bear.
7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
satan answered the Lord, "I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that's going on."
Eph 2:2 “the prince of the power of the air,”
The Lord knew were he was at; he just treated him like a child.
God is showing us here that he is Lord and satan still has to answer to him.
8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Job doesn’t fear God for nothing.
And the reason is because Job walks with him and is obedient to him.
Remember God said in verse 1 “that he was perfect and upright man”
It’s kind of hard to walk with the Lord when you’re not obeying him.
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
This is what God can do for you, when you obey, and he puts his hedge around you.
What does the “hedge” mean?
Hedge is his taking care of you protecting you and supplying all your needs.
Remember when Moses went up to get the Ten Commandments and Moses ask God who do I tell them sent me and God said:
Ex 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
What he is saying is what ever you need that’s what he is.
Isa 5:1-6
1–4 the Lord speaks about how good his vineyard looks and how he took care of it, but some of the grapes came out bitter (speaking about us).
Verses 5 and after this is what he says he’s going to do.
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
And it goes on and on in these verses.
11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
The devil is attacking God and Job, before all the angels.
What satan is saying, is because you give him all these things, you are buying his love.
Devil says; God if you take all he has, meaning processions.
He will turn from you.
The Lord allowed this to happen to him so Job could prove to the devil, and to the angels, his love for the Lord is from the heart.
Job didn’t know for what reason he was going thought these trials and tribulations.
But he did know that it wasn’t for any sin he committed, (not that he was sinless), because if the Lord would have pointed out a sin that he was committing, Job would have repented of it, because he was a righteous man.
The Lord already knew what Job was going to do.
Question: can the Lord rely on you to stay with him.
1) When you lose your job.
2) Lose your spouse or child
3) Lose your health
4) Lose the closes person or thing
The hardest part of being tested is the length of time.
People can make the time of testing hard, with Job it was his friends and family.
We should worship God for being God and not for what he can do for us.
You will see at the end of this teaching, that at the end of your trials if you stay focus on the Lord you will be bless.
God is giving Job a chance to prove the devil wrong and that he is a liar, and to the angels, that God is a loving, caring, and forgiven.
12 And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
He had to ask permission to do this to Job.
Just like in Luke 22:31 when Jesus was telling Peter he was going to deny him, he also told him that satan ask to sift him like wheat.
This ought to be a great comfort to you.
Verses 13-19 is when satan started to work on Job.
His animals were stolen and his farmhands were killed.
Fire burned up his sheep and the shepherds.
They stole his camels and killed the servants.
All his children are now dead.
20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
He tore off his robe, and shaved his head, and started to worship God.
Gen 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Josh 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
(pick someone and say if the Lord took half of this away from you, would you still worship him?)
Right now we can have a pretty good idea where we at with the Lord.
If your answer is not the right one, then we know we need to get closer to him.
If your answer is the right one, then praise God.
(speak about rewards)
Remember I told you about my little girl
This is not bragging, I did worship the Lord
It was the word that pulled me through it.
We don’t know how to worship the Lord?
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job didn’t understand why, but believed that his trial came from God.
He said “the Lord gave, and he takes away”
How many times to we do the same thing, we blame God for what happens.
Instead of blaming God, he should be praising him, like he says at the end of the verse.
22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job didn’t turn his back on the Lord, and speak evil of God.
He didn’t blame the Lord.
Chapter 2
Verses 1-3 say the same thing chapter 1 said, about Job being a righteous man.
4 And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
The devil is saying O.K. Job passed those tests.
But take his health and Job will curse you.
6 And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
Praise God that he hasn’t let the devil have us.
Can you image, there’s people out there who are in the devil hands.
But God tells the devil, you can’t take Job life.
7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
The devil has always wanted to copy the Lord in everything, and he did it here:
We know about the serpents with Moses
In Deut. Chapter 28 God tells the people what’s going to happen to them for disobeying him.
And in verse 35 God tells them the same thing the devil is doing to Job right here in this verse.
Giving Job sores from his feet to the top of his head.
Satan is a counterfeit and only those who know the word of God can see it.
Those who don’t know, can be fooled by the devil.
Just like with money, I can’t tell you if it’s counterfeit.
But someone who knows can tell you right off the bat.
Matt 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Verse 8 Job cut himself with a piece of pottery he had broken and sat in ashes.
The bible speaks about the ashes is where the dump ground was, were the dogs would eat, and Job went from being the greatest of all the men of the east (1:3), to being in ashes.
This is the reason we should be always thankful to the Lord for where we are at, and for what we have.
9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
This is the way the devil works is by using other people to tempt you.
Here it was the wife, but it could be your husband, mother, father, sons or daughters.
It’s a spiritual battle we’re in, and the devil will use anyone he can.
Why are you still holding on to your Christianity?
He didn’t curse God like his wife wanted him to do, instead he just humble himself before the Lord.
She wanted him to curse God and end his life.
10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
His wife had lost it.
Speaking like a foolish women, means “you don’t know what your saying”
With the loss of her family, possessions, and now her husband health, her faith is in ruins.
She was no longer there to help him spiritually.
1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
I believe it means emotionally. (here, and the story of Adam and Eve)
Was she a Christian wife, you think not for what she said?
What did Peter do? He denies Christ not once but 3 times.
Job responded like Jesus did in meekness.
Job is saying here, “Should I only praise God when things are good, No, we should praise him even when things are not going good”
They preachers who say if you’re suffering, you’re not right with the Lord?
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Phil 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
Look at what Jesus went through, you can’t get any more righteous than him.
Those preachers who say if you’re sick you’re not right with God.
James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
I have shown in the bible what God says about healing.
We have prophets and disciples who were sick, and God didn’t heal them.
With everything that Job lost, he did not blasphemy God with his lips.
Chapter 13:15-16 tells what a godly man he is.
15 “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him”
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. (Job knew himself not to be a hypocrite)
What Job is saying is that he wasn’t a Christian only when he was at Church or with other Christians
11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz (E-lie-fas) the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, (shoe-height) and Zophar (so-far) the Naamathite (Naa-ma-nite) for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Verse 11 says to comfort him, we’re going to see that they were afar off from doing that.
Verse 12 Says his friends didn’t even recognize him.
They showed their humility for him by tearing of their clothes, and throwing dirt on themselves.
It was their custom to mourn for 7 days when someone died.
In Gen 50:10 when Joseph father died, (Jacob) they mourned for his father seven days.
When Saul and his sons were killed, they did the same thing in 1 Sam 31:13 and they fasted seven days.
His friends fasted for seven days and nights, that’s what Job did in chapter 1:20
He worshipped the Lord.
We’re going to see that his 3 friends are lost.
Job 16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Chapter 3
To get a better understanding of chapter 3
We need to remember what God said in chapter 2:3 God said: “There is none like him in the earth” at that time.
Meaning we would have reacted in a worst way than he did,
So has we read about his reactions; just remember none of us could have stood up to Job.
At that time, But because we have this story and the Holy Spirit, we can be like Job.
Last part of the verse it says “he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.”
What God is saying even though I drop my hedge around him, he still has spiritual honesty and has not left me.
I said it before Job was not going thought these trails because of sin, right here the Lord says it “to destroy him without cause”
In chapter 1 and 2 we see the spiritual side of Job, but now he starts getting in the flesh.
But not against the Lord.
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. (Brithday)
After everything Job went through.
Lost of his servants.
Wealth
Wife not with him spiritually
Health
He wished that he wasn’t even born.
He was down, but he didn’t leave the Lord.
He cursed the day he was born, but not God.
2 And Job spake, and said,
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Job started to come down on himself as we read.
But is not the only Godly man to do this:
Jer 20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Jonah 4:3 Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
We let the problem over take what we know in the Lord?
Job is hurting so bad that he wants to die.
Through all this Job wants God to take him home.
He didn’t commit suicide.
The curse of a Christian is that we have a short memory.
He had forgotten all the blessings the Lord gave him before this.
We have to look at this has being temporary and remember that there is another life after this one.
John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And he continues with his depression.
From verse 11 to 24 it just speaks more of what we just read.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Jobs greatness fear was that the Lord would leave him,
And he feels that God has left him.
Is losing your job, a love one, your health, is this our greatness fear.
What is your greatness fear?
My fear is that my daughter is going to hell because she is rejecting the Lord.
Or should it be not having the Lord?
Remember what God said in chapter 1:22 “In all this Job sinned not”
Also in chapter 2:3 “to destroy him without cause”
When trials and tribulations come your way and things don’t look good at all, this doesn’t necessary mean you’re not walking with the Lord.
There are many promises in the bible, and we need to believe them.
Heb 13:5-6
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”.
I can’t tell my wife I’ll never leave her, no man can say this.
But God can. Amen.
“I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”
Can man kill your soul and spirit, no?
God can, so who should we fear, if we’re not born again?
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
With everything he has just said in these verses.
I have no hedge around me, no peace, and the Lord has left me.
What he is saying, what good have I gotten for following God, and I m still ending up like this?
HE HAS NOT TURNED FROM THE LORD.
Compare our problems next to Job, we can see it’s nick pick
Chapter 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
The Temanites were known for their great wisdom.
We’re going to see the wisdom of the world system now.
2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Eliphaz is saying OK, you’ve been doing all the talking; can you stop for a while so I can say something?
We’re going to see that Eliphaz thinks he’s going to set Job straight.
By showing him that he is not so righteous like he thinks he is.
3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Eliphaz tells him that “you helped all these people with their problems, you helped to make them strong in the Lord.
But now these trials or tests have come your way, you’ve lost it.
What he was telling Job was the same thing they told Jesus in Matt 27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot save.
Eliphaz is like the devil, accusing him of being a hypocrite.
Just like now when he tells us “How can you go to church or act like a Christian when you have, whatever”
6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Eliphaz is going to tell Job what he really fears, philosophy responds.
Your fear is that you’re belief, and hope, wasn’t going to be enough.
You told others to be strong, but yet you fall when it happens to you.
You were afraid of not being strong in the spirit when these things came upon you.
You didn’t know if you would be able to be that Christian.
Remember that’s not what Job said in verses 25-26
His fear was that God would leave him, and he would have to go through these trials without the Lord.
He didn’t say he wasn’t going to be strong enough when they came.
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
The question is do the righteous die? Yes they do.
But we’re not talking about salvation.
Do Christian people ever lose out in the end? Are they ever cut off?
So what he is saying to Job is: if you were innocent, these things wouldn’t be happening to you.
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Eliphaz is saying to Job, you reap what you sow.
Remember Eliphaz is giving his worldly philosophies of what is happening.
9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Eliphaz is saying: yes those who are wicked, sooner or later, young or old they will get what they deserve.
So Job you’re reaping what you sowed.
Is this what you tell someone when they just lost everything?
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
When he said it was brought to him in secret, right there that tells me it’s not from the Lord, because he has no secrets when it comes to his people.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Another reason he shows that he not a Christian, is he said fear came on me.
Every time an angel who could be Jesus also, appears to a man in the bible, the angel or Jesus would say “fear not”.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Now he’s going to tell Job about a vision he had.
When you don’t want people to question you, on something you want to do, or believe, you tell them that the Lord showed you or told you.
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
He’s telling Job; you think man has more righteousness than God?
Can a man have more holiness than him?
Could we put up with what the world is doing to our babies?
Could we put up with the way we were before we gave our hearts to the Lord?
18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Who’s his servants? The prophets, like Jonah, who fled from doing Gods will.
God does trust us to a point, because we’re just man and we will fail God,
Now he did have to kick a third of the angels out of heaven, for wanting to follow satan.
19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
If he couldn’t trust in his angels, how is he going to trust in us.
Isa 64:8 “But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay”
Our foundation was from the world, the world shows us how to live.
And that we are easily consumed by it.
Let’s remember that the word of God says in:
John 17:14-18
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
1 Cor 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1 John 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Remember he’s talking to Job.
He’s saying that people like Job, don’t make it.
They act like they have a Christian life, but when they die it’s all for nothing, no one remembers them.
This is not Christian comforting.
Chapter 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
He is saying: if you’re right with God he will get you out of this.
Which is not true because God does get us out of curtain situations, look at Peter.
The times he was throw into prison, and the Lord got him out.
But let’s look at Paul, how many times was he throw into prison and God didn’t get him out, and at those times he was right with the Lord.
So he can, but sometimes he doesn’t.
I’m sure that at the time Paul didn’t know that all those letters he wrote while in prison he was going to reach a lot of people.
That’s why we shouldn’t complain about a situation we might be in when we’re walking with the Lord.
Job didn’t know, Paul didn’t know, but God did, he has 20/20 vision.
Here’s another place to show Eliphaz doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
He saying: which saint are you going to call on now, that can hear you?
Does the bible show or speak of anyone praying to a saint?
The Ten Commandments says not to do it.
Third commandment says: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Fifth commandment says: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them
You have people who pray to Mary.
They call her the mother of God.
She is without sin.
Luke 1:46-47
46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
1 Tim 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
What he is saying here is that God doesn’t answer the foolish.
And he destroys them also.
Eliphaz has seen foolish men prosper, but then lose everything.
The children of the foolish have no one to take up for them.
Others who have nothing take from them.
Again he is wrong because the scriptures say in:
Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
While we’re on this verse let me just say
When you lend money, do it as if you are just giving it to them, expecting nothing in return,
And if you do it that way the Lord will reward greatly, either here or in heaven.
In Eccl 5:13-15 it says “saving your riches your money, can hurt you, meaning not getting blessing on what the Lord has given you to use.
Money is put into risky investments that turn bad, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one's children.
God said to invest in helping people and you will “not might” get a return.
If you give expecting something in return then you’re investing.
He didn’t promise returns in investments.
He promise returns in giving.
The last part of Luke 6:35 it says: “for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.”
In Rom 2:4 God says: he’s kind and good and patient with the lost and it is intended to turn them from sin to him.
Also in 2 Peter 3:9 it says: God is being patient for our sake, that’s why he hasn’t return yet giving everyone time to get saved whether than to be destroyed.
If God didn’t do this, how many people would be getting saved?
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Everything he just said is what happen to Job.
He is saying that trouble doesn’t just come out of nowhere, we make it.
We were born with a sin nature, and our troubles arise naturally.
He’s just constantly blaming Job for his troubles.
This man’s view of God, is totally wrong, he’s making God out to be judgmental and condemning, that he is a God of wrath.
He saw God has powerful, but not loving.
We’re going to see that his other 3 friends are going to say the same thing.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
What he is saying is, Job you are guilty, and you need to turn to the Lord.
10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
If he would have said these 3 verses and then kept quiet, he would have done the Christian thing.
He’s always doing miracles over and over.
He takes care even the earth.
He lifts those who are down, and sad to protect them.
12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Look at what Hitler did, and others.
13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
These are men who think they were too smart for God.
Men’s wisdom is foolish.
1 Cor 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
These verses are true, but not always, he can do this, he can take care of us, and he does correct us when he has to.
And when he does chastise us, we shouldn’t get mad at him.
18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Its saying here, when God does chastise us, he also delivers us in love.
21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.
What he saying here is that: Job if you repent and shape up you’ll live a long time.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
These verses are for those who need correction, in Job case this is not for him.
Remember God said he’s done nothing wrong.
We will see that everything these friends are saying: is when you’re right with God everything is a bed of roses.
Sounds good, but not true.
Verse 27 his friend is saying: We have study this to be true, and this is the way it is, listen to our counsel, because it is for your own good.
Ps 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Verse 27 his friend is saying: We have study this to be true, and this is the way it is, listen to our counsel, because it is for your own good.
This sounds like many religions, this is the truth and there is no other.
Chapter 6
1-7
Eliphaz has been very harsh on Job, by blaming him for his troubles.
He wants Eliphaz to recognize everything he’s been through.
a) Job replies again with the same sadness that he has felt.
b) Job believes that he has just cause to complain, I have suffer like no man has suffer.
8-13
He continues that the Lord would take him and end his miseries.
In verse 10 he says, he hasn’t denied the words of the Holy Ones.
That’s quite a statement.
He was confused, and had anger, which is very understandable.
In times like this we need to give a brother or sister room to have this kind of feeling, and not judge them.
He says, I’m I like a stone with no feeling.
14-21
He is saying: if only he had loving and compassionate friend, with sympathy.
But instead he has someone who is blaming him, without fear of God.
He is showing no love, instead of getting comfort, he’s receiving torment.
Job is feeling the same way Jesus did:
John 12:27 “Now is my soul troubled”
Matt 26:38 “My soul is exceeding sorrowful”
Matt 27:46 “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me”
We have a human man, who is responding just like Jesus.
Jesus didn’t take his eyes off his Father.
Job didn’t take his eyes off the Lord.
22-24
He says to his friends, have I ask for your help.
Job didn’t send for them, to deliver him from the enemy.
He tells Eliphaz teach me and I’ll listen, show me where I’ve been wrong.
25-30
He saying that he needs truth, the right words.
I don’t need your criticism.
You’re judging me for the way I reacted.
He saying, you would kick orphans when they are down.
And you wouldn’t have a problem putting down a friend.
He tells Eliphaz to look at his face, because he would be able to tell if he is lying.
But if he sees that he wasn’t lying, then he needs to repent, and he wants justice.
Job is saying that he is a righteous man, I know the difference between right and wrong, I would have repented if there was anything for me to repent of.
In chapter 6 he speaks to his friend, but now in chapter 7 he’s going to be speaking to God.
Chapter 7
Verses 1-3
Speaks about how long Job has been suffering, and in verse 3 it says; it’s been months.
But from chapter 3 to chapter 42 this all happen in one day.
Verses 4-10
Again he speaks about how sick he is.
And how his days and nights seem to just drag on and on.
Job has lost all hope of being healed, he believes his only release from pain was death.
And when he dies, he’ll just be gone.
Verse 11 Job is saying let me express my true feeling, how angry and bitter I’m feel right now,
Verse 12 he saying; I’m I a monster and you’re never leave me alone?
Verses 13-14
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
He saying if only I can go to bed and sleep it would ease his pain, but:
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
He still doesn’t know that the devil is the one doing all of this.
We know it’s not the Lord because in:
2 Tim 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear”
The very beginning of the book it tells us that the devil is doing all this to Job.
Verse 17 - What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
The answer is that man is the work of God’s hands; we are created in his image. Gen 1:27
Gods will was that all should be saved.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Cor 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Isa 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
We should ask ourselves this question.
Do you really hate sin,
Ps 97:10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil, because it’s against God?
Do you really give him 100% of yourself?
Matt 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Do you meditate on him day and night?
Ps 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Do you meditate on him day and night?
John 4:23-24
23 But the time is coming indeed it's here now when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those worship him that way.
(True worshippers will worship in spirit, not in the flesh, like we see today, but in truth meaning the heart.)
24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth."
Do you meditate on him day and night?
He saying: Lord look at me, a poor and weak creature, I’m doing nothing but complaining about my troubles, and you being a great and glorious God.
And do you have a heart to even listen to me.
These are the reasons God cares for us.
18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
He’s thinking that God is the one doing all this to him, and he says, why are you concentrating on me, testing me every day?
19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Lord can you just leave me alone, at least long enough so I can swallow, meaning take a breath.
20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
He saying I know I’m not perfect.
What do you want me to do?
And just like verse 17 says; he watches us, because of who we are.
Why are you just concentrating just on me?
When we start to think this way, and we feel that the burden is too hard.
We need to remember;
Matt 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
1 Cor 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Again he is saying, if I have sinned to bring this on me, than show me what it is so I can repent and get out of this trouble.
Because if you don’t I want be here in the morning.
Chapter 8
Verses 1-6
Bildad his other friend replies to Job.
How long are you going to blabber?
You think that the Lord is not sure of what is right
He is saying: Job quit crying, God doesn’t make mistakes, if you kids sin they deserve to die.
He’s telling Job, if you would go to the Lord at bedtime and prayed for your children this wouldn’t have happen.
Again he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, because we read in chapter 1:5 that’s just what he did.
He’s telling him to clean up his life, get right with God and he’ll restore your home and it will grow, you’ll have more than what you started out with, right now. Not true.
You can see that this man does not know what he is talking about, because God has already said that Job was pure and upright.
Eccl 8:11 “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily”
The Lord doesn’t jump when say jump.
This counsel he is giving Job is the same we hear from some preachers.
Name it, claim it, teaching.
Remember he believes if you’re right with God he will be good to you.
Do we see all Christians with everything they want? No.
Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Religious men are this way; they do not speak the word of God.
Verses 8-14
He is saying that men like Noah lived a long time about 8 to 900 hundred year, but now their only living about 2 to 300 years old.
Because of their age they knew a lot more than what we’re leaning.
Can reeds grow without a marsh, and can a marsh weeds grow without water?
Before they are cut they start flowering, but then they start too withering away before the weeds.
Eliphaz is saying can water grass grow with no water? Of course not.
And his point to Job is that neither can you be innocent.
Will trouble really happen with someone who is right with God.
He’s telling Job that he is a hypocrite, and has forgotten God.
Job is the water grass without any water.
Your hope will fall, just like a spider’s wed that is not strong at all.
Verse 15-19
Again it comes down to, that Job you are a hypocrite.
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
Bildad is saying; if you were a perfect man with God, he wouldn’t be rejecting you.
And since you’re in this place of anguish against God he’s not going to help you.
This sounds like a good verse that Bildad is using, but there’s one thing wrong with it, there is no perfect man, and he does help evil doers.
Look at us.
And even when we were lost he helped us:
Luke 6:35 “for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.”
Matt 5:45 “for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good”
21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
He’s referring to the first part of verse 20
If you were this perfect man God will put laugher and rejoicing back in you.
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
But just like the last part of verse 20, he will not help you, and he will put you to shame and you will have nothing.
Chapter 9
In chapter 8 Bildad tells Job.
Get right with God and he will restore what you had.
God will not reject the righteous.
If you’re not right with him, your hopes disappear.
Job is saying in this chapter.
I know all this.
But Job asks how can man get right with God to show his innocents.
He is saying that anyone wanting to stand up to God, they wouldn’t be able to answer not one out of thousand questions.
Remember in the N.T. in Matt, how many times the religious leaders who ask him a question, and he would come back with a question and they couldn’t answer him.
God’s wisdom is so deep, who could take him on.
Job starts praising God, he is showing how at awe he is on how powerful his God.
He says; who am I to question God?
Even if I were right I still couldn’t question him.
And even if he did answer me on my question, I would have a hard time believing that he was listening.
Job says, he’s going through this without cause.
Just like Jesus who went through suffering and pain without cause.
Again he says; I can’t even breathe, I have so much trouble.
I know he’s stronger than me, and who will even dare to take him to court?
Job says; I’m innocent, but the words I say (like verse 18) “He filleth me with bitterness” will make me sound like I’m not, and he will show me to be a sinner
Even though I’m innocent, and I know this down in my heart, I still hate my life.
Job starts to get angry with the Lord.
He saying innocent or wicked, it’s the same to him, they both die.
He speaks like he’s never had happiness in his life.
My life just comes and then it’s gone, that quick.
If I were to clean myself very clean, you would still have me to be dirty.
I can’t fight you, because you’re not a man like me.
If only there was a mediator between us, an umpire, someone who could bring us together.
This mediator could stop God from beating me, and quit his terror on me.
Then I could speak to him without fear, but I can’t.
Like I said, Job knows better than this, but it’s starting to get to him, because he still doesn’t know why all this is happening to him.
Chapter 10
He says, “I will speak in the bitterness of my soul” and he does.
Job continues to blame the Lord for all his misery, much of what he says, is not true.
Job believes because of the way he thinks that the Lord has been treating him; he’s going to hell when he dies.
Job is very confuse, he knows the Lord one way, but then he is being treated another.
Job still doesn’t know that all of this is still coming from the devil.
As we know that the Lord is not the author of confusion:
1 Cor 14:33 “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace”.
Chapter 11
Now is third friend Zophar starts to speak and he is saying the same things that Eliphaz, and Bildad said.
Is a person proved innocent just by a lot of talking?
God is punishing you far less than you deserve! He’s right.
Little does Zophar know that we are all in the same boat.
He says; can we find God? And if we do find him can we really know him? Yes.
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
2 Tim 1:12 “for I know whom I have believed”
Zophar is accusing Job of being wicked and he tells him:
If God takes your children, and takes your health, and do all these things at the same time, who can stop him?
What kind of picture is he printing of God?
But then he turns from making God seem terrible to speaking truth about him.
He’s telling Job if you get your heart right, and reach out to the Lord, and repent of your sins.
Then the Lord will accept you. True, but doesn’t apply to Job.
He tells Job you will forget all your misery.
Wrong, we can’t forget, but God can.
He’s telling Job that if you do what I have said you’ll make it.
But if you don’t then verse 20 is for you,
You will be blinded, there will be no escape, and death will follow.
1 John 2:11 “darkness hath blinded his eyes”.
Chapter 12 Job replies to his friends
You believe you know everything, but you don’t.
He tells them that when you die, your wisdom will die with you.
1 Cor 1:19-21
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1 Cor 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
He tells them, I have wisdom also, and I know I’m no better than you.
(because we’re all sinners in Gods eyes.)
My friends laugh at me, for I call on God and expect an answer.
I am a just and right with God, but you laugh at me.
Jobs point is that God has the power to do whatever he wants.
Chapter 13
Job continues to respond to his friends.
He still wants to argue to the Lord.
Job is saying I’m not inferior to you.
All you been doing to me is telling me lies.
The best thing you can do is be quiet, and listen to my case.
I’m wasting my time with you, I want to speak my case directly to God.
You are doctors of wisdom, but you tell nothing but lies, you are worthless to me.
He tells them if only you could be silent! That's the wisest thing you could do.
Prov 17:28 “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise”
Being quiet would be your best wisdom.
You think God needs you to lie and twist the truth for him, on what you want me to believe?
He says to them, you think you can fool God like you fool men?
This so called truth you are telling, have about as much value as ashes.
Your defense is so easily broke, like a pot of clay.
He believes he has a right to argue with God.
Even if God kills him, who else can I go to?
God is not going to kill me, because I’m a godly man.
Job is ready to say what is on his mind.
He says; remove your heavy hand, and don’t terrify me with your awesome presence.
Job says; show me my rebellion and my sin.
He saying; he’s a nobody.
Chapter 14
Job is saying; life is short.
He says; Who can make clean, when you are unclean?
And he says; no one, wrong.
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
He saying you take better care of the trees than us.
Then he ask the question that even today many still ask, where are we when we die?
When you read and you see the words Paradise, Abraham’s bosom, grave, sheol, hades, prison, bottomless pit, death, all these refer to a temporary hell.
Let me show you that there is a hell:
Acts 2:31 He (King David) seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Rev 20:14-15
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Let me show you were the falling angels are going:
2 Pet 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Explain: Paradise and prison
Luke 16:22-24
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Luke 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence.
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
1 Peter 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
The final designation for the devil and his demons, and those who do not want to give their lives to the Lord, is called Lake of Fire.
Acts 7:59-60
59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
1 Thess 4:15-18
15) We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died. (sleeping) 16) For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the Christians who have died (who are sleeping) will rise from their graves. 17) Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever. 18) So encourage each other with these words.
1 Thess 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Job is sending mix messages, some of what he says is true, but much of it is not.
And it’s because of the anger and not understanding why he’s going through these tests.
To show this: in verse 10 he says: “When a man dies, where does he go?”
But then in verse 14 he says: “After he dies, he will wait for his change to come”
Chapter 15
Eliphaz is still saying the same thing.
Wicked people don’t prosper and Job is in that place.
He still is calling Job a hypocrite.
He speaks about how bad it’s going to be for the wicked.
Chapter 16
Job tells Eliphaz that they came to comfort him, but they did a miserable job at it.
Job also says that if he was in their shoes, he would be helping them though their grief.
Job believes that God hates him.
And in verse 11 Job says; “God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.”
He continues to speak about how bad the Lord is treating him.
We see that he is very disgusted with his friends.
He’s crushed because he believes that God has left him.
So as we read how Job responds to the Lord, remember he’s hurting pretty bad.
Job says; if only there was someone in heaven who knows the truth about him.
Chapter 17
Job continues to say he’s innocence.
He continues to complain, that he’s not going to live much longer.
Again he’s telling them that they have no wisdom.
He is saying that his good days are behind him.
He’s hoping that the night is about to turn to day.
He says that the hope he has is going to go to the grave with him.
And he says; the only family that’s going to show up when he dies is the worms.
Job has lost any hope of surviving the things he is going through.
Job feels like he has hit rock bottom, his only relief is dying.
Nobody is there to comfort him.
This is a true story, becoming a Christian doesn’t mean you’re going to live happy ever after.
This is why we need God’s grace, to keep it together, in his strength not ours.
Marriage, job, children, being a Christian, we need the Lord.
If we didn’t ever have to go through any of this, how would we grow?
Look at a child when their young, if they’re doing the same thing when they become adults, how does that look?
We can see that Job is not looking beyond the grave.
Chapter 18
Bildad replies to Job and says; do you think you’re talking to animals, you think we’re dump and stupid.
Bildad is not interested in helping Job, but for him to shut-up and admit that he’s sinful.
And Bildad still calling him wicked.
In verse 5 Bildad say; if you don’t prosper you’re wicked.
He saying; Those who do Gods will have prosperity and good health.
But if you suffer, you’re not in Gods will.
2 Cor 12:9-10 “Paul is saying that Jesus said unto him.”
9 Each time he said, "My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. 10 That's why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Verses 8-10
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Bildad is saying here this is what the wicked do.
Ps 9:15 The nations have fallen into the pit they dug for others. Their own feet have been caught in the trap they set.
Prov 26:27 If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead.
Prov 28:10 Those who lead good people along an evil path will fall into their own trap, but the honest will inherit good things.
These all say the same thing that when someone is digging a hole for righteous man or harm him, trap him, the very thing the unrighteous is trying to do the righteous man, is going to fall on him.
And he says more about had bad it is to be wicked.
He says; this is what you get for being a sinner.
He says; you don’t even know God.
Has we see that Bildad has made two mistakes,
One, none of what he is saying applies to Job. This is for lost people.
Two, he has the wrong motives.
Chapter 19
Job response to Bidad.
How long are you going to keep on putting me down.
By tormenting, crushing, insulting, and saying I’m wrong.
Prov 12:18 Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing.
Prov 15:4 Gentle words are a tree of life; a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.
Matt 5:11-12
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Job is telling them that if he was wrong, they have been unable to show him.
He says you have so much wisdom, then show me were I’m guilty.
Bildad is acting like some preachers and teachers we have, believing you can’t question what they say, because of what it says in:
1 Chron 16:221 "Do not touch my chosen people, and do not hurt my prophets."
People might not listen to me because I have no initials behind my name, or a title in front of my name. Look at Jesus he was just a carpenter.
Job speaks about how everyone has turned against him, even his own wife.
He says I’m skin and bones, and I’m just barely living.
He did get one of his wishes, verse 23 “Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Job had no idea that his words would survive him.
But God knew this was a man that he wanted everybody to notice.
Job is up and down on what he says, but the next few verses, Job shows that he knows who the Lord is.
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Job knows he has a redeemer.
This verse right here shows that Jesus is God.
And that he will return in the last days. Amen
Today may seem dark and terrible but:
We have a future that is brighter than what we can imagine.
Like Job we will experience evil being defeated by God.
IN THE END, GOD WINS, AND SO DO WE. AMEN.
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job knew a lot more than what we think.
He knew that his body would go to the grave, and the worms would probably eat his body.
But he also knew that he would see God through his soul.
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Praise God, we are going to see the Lord, no matter what happens to our body.
Then he tells them the same thing he said in chapter 18:8-10 “keep trying to make me look bad in front of God, and see what he’s going to do with you.
Chapter 20
Pretty much what Zophar is saying in this chapter.
The wicked don’t live long.
Their power is only temporal.
And that Gods judgment falls hard on the wicked.
He insults Job by telling him he took advantage of others, because of his wealth.
And he says; Job your pleasures are over. Your wickedness has caught up with you.
We know that what he is saying about Job is not true.
There’s times when things are said about us, we let it go.
Chapter 21
He strongly replies to Zophar, to listen and have patients with him.
And then when I’m finish, you can say what you have to say.
Job says his complaint is with God not man.
He’s telling them to quit responding to him because of the way he looks, (very sickly).
Even he is frightened at the way he looks.
Job responds to what Zophar said in chapter 20 about the wicked don’t live long.
From verse 7-19 he says; they do live a long time and enjoy the pleasures of this world, but not the pleasures of God.
Zophar you say that God will punish the children for the parents sins.
But Job says; punish the ones who sin.
Sin is passed down from generation to generation, until a Christian breaks it.
Job tells him, how can you come and comfort me, when everything you tell me is wrong.
(the wicked and rich die young)
Chapter 22
Eliphaz is still excusing Job of being wicked.
He starts telling Job how he misused or took advantage of the things he had.
He tells Job in verse 12-14 you do these things because you think he can’t see you.
Verses 17-18 the people say “We don’t need God, we have everything we need”
And in verse 20 he says; we haven’t lost all of our substance, but you have.
These men remind me of the religious leaders in;
Matt 23:27-28
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
They are saying that if you have great wealth, you’re right with God, if you’re not?
Let’s look at John the Baptist? And Jesus.
We have teaching like that today.
Over and over they said, “If you’re right with God, you can have all these material things”
They’re saying if you have all these thing, that will make you happy.
(is this true? Do these things really make you happy)
Verses 27-30 have partial truth and some not true.
27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you, (James 5:16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.) and you will fulfill your vows to him.
28 You will succeed in whatever you choose to do, (Matt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.) and light will shine on the road ahead of you.
29 If people are in trouble and you say, 'Help them,' God will save them. (sometimes yes, and sometimes no.) example: II Th 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he (its not they) eat.
30 Even sinners will be rescued; they will be rescued because your hands are pure."
Ezek 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Acts 20:26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
Chapter 23
Job replies. Still complaining.
He says; I can’t find God, but he knows that he is the one who can help him.
In verses 10-12
10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
He says: That God knows everything about him, when he has examines me, he’ll know that I’m innocent.
You know that the Lord already knows all about you, so instead of him checking you out, you need to check your own self
2 Cor 13:5 Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith.
My foot hath held his steps, (Ps 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.)
He’s done Gods will. He has done the things God has told him to do.
He lives by Gods word more than food. (Matt 4:4 “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”)
Then he goes back to his complaining.
Chapter 24
He is still complaining.
That God doesn’t listen.
The wicked take advantage of the poor.
How they do their evilness at night.
God is allowing so much wrong to take place.
He knows that God could stop all of this, but he doesn’t.
But there is one thing constant with Job, he trusts the Lord, he doesn’t understand but he trusts in God.
But they will get what they deserve.
Chapter 25
Bildad doesn’t attack Job and he just speak about how powerful God is.
Verse 2 “Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.”
He’s talking about heaven and how God kicked the falling angels out.
Just like Joshua said to the people of Israel as being the head of the nation, the same is said for the head of the house.
He should clean his house, Josh 24:15 “but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
He points to God if we want to be right with him. (We know how to be clean with him).
Chapter 26
Job comes back in responds to what Bildad said, with 6 questions, verses 1-4
1) How hast thou helped him that is without power?
What motive did you have when you came, was it to help or hurt?
1 Cor 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
(The fire will show if your help was from the Lord, or it was worthless like these 3 friends)
2) How savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
What did you do, to give me strength?
The bible says to lift one another, and to pray.
3) How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom?
Did you give me worldly wisdom or Godly?
Ps 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
The Lord is showing here that if we walk with them, we’ll in up standing with them, and then they have us because now we’re sitting with them.
4) How hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
This is mainly for preachers and teachers; where did you receive wisdom?
1Thes 2:4 “For we speak as messengers from God, trusted by him to tell the truth”
1 Cor 1:17 For Christ didn't send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel; and even my preaching sounds poor, for I do not fill my sermons with profound words and high sounding ideas, for fear of diluting the mighty power there is in the simple message of the cross of Christ.
Acts 20:27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
5) To whom hast thou uttered words?
6) Whose spirit came from thee?
Who gave you the words to say?
Was it the spirit of the Lord.
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
There are 3 kinds of spirit
Holy Spirit
1 Cor 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Unclean spirit
Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Man spirit (human)
1 Cor 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Verses 5-14 Job praises the Lord.
Chapter 27
Job is just continuing on what he’s been saying all along.
Job starts off speaking highly of God, by saying he’s a living God.
But then he starts speaking harshly of him, by saying, he has denied him his justice.
And that God has made his soul bitter.
But as long as I live I will have the spirit of God in me.
He will never tell his friends that they are right, and he’ll die saying I’m innocent.
In verse:
6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
What Job is saying here is that he’s not wrong, so it must be God.
Job is speaking like the Jews believes, and that there are made right with God by keeping the laws. (speak about the movie “Jesus of Nazareth”)
Rom 10:1-5
1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
(I know that they want to be right, but they have been mislead by there leaders)
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
(They don't know the true way of getting right with God, refusing to accept Jesus as the Christ, so they believe in their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law, just like people do today.)
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
(He didn’t say it was the end of the law, but it’s not what saves you now, it’s Jesus)
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
(Moses wrote the law's to have people right with God, which requires that you don’t brake not one of them, but we couldn’t do keep them, so God gave us Jesus)
In verse:
Verse 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Matt 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Is being popular in the world, worth going to hell, giving up your soul.
Or walk with the Lord and believe what he says in his words.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
Job is speaking about the wicked in the rest of the chapter.
Chapter 28
Job is going to be speaking about wisdom and understanding.
He says that men know how to;
- Mine silver and refine gold.
- Dig iron from the earth, and melt copper from stone.
- Put light in dark mine tunnels and plant seeds in the earth to get food.
- Move mountains, and how to make dams to stop water.
And he speaks about much more of what man can do.
And then he says, but man cannot find wisdom and understanding, or buy it.
In Matt 25 speaks about 10 vigins.
And in Acts 8 it speaks about Simon.
He says that seeking wisdom through man’s effort is a waste of time.
We know to find wisdom is to find God and to look at life through him.
Understanding is to knowing that it rains on the just and the unjust, and not be confuse when things happen to us or around us.
We respond to life’s trials the way God would have us to.
Prov 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1 Cor 1:24 “Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”
1 Cor 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Prov 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
We can buy the wisdom of the world, by going to college and getting all the Ph.D. you want, but it won’t give you Gods wisdom.
The only way you can get this wisdom, is by the Lord.
Matt 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona (Peter) for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Prov 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Chapter 29
Job talks about himself and what a godly man he was.
And how even men of high authority, listen to him.
How he helped those in need, the poor.
So he’s talking about his former glory.
Chapter 30
And now in this chapter he speaks about men who are less than his dogs.
Who don’t even listen to him.
Job, who once had respect, is now rejected.
His strength and joy has been replaced with diseases, and humiliation.
Songs that his family once enjoyed, was no longer.
Chapter 31
Job is going to justify himself and prove that he’s not guilty.
He’s going to show that he wasn’t just righteous on the outside like the religious leaders, but that he was righteous on the inside also.
Verses 1-4
Job says one of the sins he not going to do, is lust.
He keeps his heart pure by guarding his eyes.
He knows every step I take, he sees everything I do.
Any false steps of sin, God takes notices them more than we do.
He knows that God can bring misery to him for doing these sins.
Verses 5-23
If I have lied or deceived, let God check out my heart, and know that I’m innocent.
If I have gotten off of Gods will for me, or if I have sinned with my heart because of my eyes, or because of any other sin.
He willing to give it all up if he is found guilty, and let others have what he has sowed.
And if I’m guilty and mention other sins, how could he face God.
Verses 24-34
Then he talks about if he done any of these other sins.
- Making money and wealth his happiness.
- Worshipping the moon or the sun. (I would have denied that God is above all)
- If I enjoyed evil coming upon my enemy.
Have I ever tried to hide my sins like Adam (fig leaves)
He says that these sins should not go unpunished.
Did I do any of these sins and I was afraid to even come out of my home.
Verse 35-40
His wishes are that someone would hear him, that God would answer him.
He wished that his enemies would put into writing their charges of sin against him.
He says that he would carry these charges against him on his back, like they did back then.
Just like they did with Jesus with the sign on the cross. (King of the Jews)
Then he could tell them exactly what he has done and why.
Chapter 32
Now a new person comes on the scene and his name is Elihu (E-lie-you), and in the next 6 chapters he’s going to speak.
Elihu is a saved relative.
The reason he must be saved is because at the end of the book, God tells his three friends that he was angry with them, for they had not spoken of God the things that are right, like Job did.
Elihu is going to try to be that mediator that Job has been asking for.
We see that the reason Elihu hasn’t said anything is because he is the youngest of Job 3 friends, we see that in verse 4
Remember in chapter 27:6 Job says; “My righteous” so his friends stop talking to him, because they see that Job is trying to justify himself, and by doing that, he is saying that it must be God that is wrong.
I see that these three men are just like the religious leaders in the N.T. the Pharisees and Scribes, We know that they were lost because look at the way they treated Jesus, and look at Nicodemus.
Elihu was angry with Job.
Because Job didn’t want to admit that he was wrong, and accept his punishment from the Lord.
Elihu was also angry with Jobs three friends, because they accused him, before they even knew what was going on.
We see that Elihu had wisdom here; he respected his elders, and kept his opinion to himself.
He saying the elders should be wiser and should teach, and that’s the way it should be.
But there are some elders who are not under the inspiration of God; sometimes they don’t understand the judgment of God.
He saying now listen to what I have to say.
I was patience, I listen to what you had to say, (speaking about his 3 friends) and none of you had the answer for Job.
You are saying that God is doing this to him and not man.
He says that if Job wasn’t speaking to me, and I would not have answered him like you have.
They were left speechless.
He is saying that the spirit within him is ready to speak.
He is also saying that just because Job is a well respected man and has a title of being the greatness man of the entire east, I’m no respecter of persons.
Acts 10:34 “God is no respecter of persons”
And he says that if he was a respecter of people that God would take him.
Chapter 33
He saying now Job listens to me, because I am from the Lord.
I’m what you ask for, that mediator, I’m a man like you.
Remember that’s what Job was asking for in chapter 9
Can this man be a mediator?
1 Tim 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
So we see that there is no one who can speak for you to God, no saint, no women, no person, or statue. You can’t be prayed out of hell like some religions preach.
To be a perfect mediator, you have to be both man and God.
Since I’m a man like you, you don’t have to be afraid of me.
Elihu is already making a mistake.
This is why he couldn’t be a mediator.
He tells Job; you said that you never sinned.
Job never said that he didn’t have sin
Job did make statements, like he was without sin, in chapters 9:17, 10:7, 32:1, but in chapter 7:20 Job does admit of being a sinner.
He’s heard Job say that he was Gods enemy, chapter 13:24.
Remember Job believes that God is the one doing all this to him.
He tells Job you are wrong for making these kinds of statements, because the Lord is perfect.
Why fight with him, he doesn’t have to give anyone an excuse for whatever he does, because he is just and righteous with all.
He tells Job;
God has shown himself to us over and over, but many don’t see it,
2 Cor 4:4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don't understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
Because they don’t want to give up their life.
He has done it in dreams or a vision, while we sleep; the Lord opens our ears and gives us instruction.
So you can change from your will, to his, and take away the pride of you not needing him to make it.
In verse 18 “He keepeth back his soul from the pit”
Rev 20:3 “And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”
It also says; “his life from perishing by the sword.”
Matt 25:46 "And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life."
Elihu is speaking about salvation here 22-26
He believes that Job is dying and he needs a savior.
22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Rom 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death”
Who’s trying to destroy us: John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
He says; We need a messenger, to show us what is right
He says; Who is going to keep us from going to hell?
Who is our ransom?
Matt 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Elihu tells him in verse
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
That’s what we call born again.
2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
We see here that a man has to pray to God, to repent for depending on his own righteous, and the Lord will be more than happy to come into him, and give the man, Gods righteous.
He says; God is always doing this for us.
30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
He was dead and now he’s alive in Christ. This is the resurrection.
Elihu is saying; if you have anything to say, say it now, because I want to see you being right.
Chapter 34
Elihu up to here has been pretty much right on what he has been saying.
But now he starting to accuse Job just like his 3 friends were doing.
Elihu says that Job said; “Why waste time trying to please God”
Job didn’t say that about himself, he said it about wicked people.
Elihu is like Job, he’s saying things that are true, and some things that are not.
He’s telling Job; if the Lord had hated righteous how could he keep order in his kingdom
Same thing with the lord of the house, if you’re not walking in righteousness, how can you keep in order your little kingdom the Lord has given you?
And how can you blame God who is the most just of us all, this is what he’s telling Job.
In verse: He’s telling Job
18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?
You wouldn’t say these things to a king or princes, because they would have your head chop off.
He says, you need to fear God more than them.
How could you blame God for these things, when God looks at us the same.
He saying that God sees everything and that there is no place you can hide.
This also proves that there is no such thing as, when you die you’re just dead, and the Lord can’t find you.
In verse: 29
When God chooses to be quiet.
Can satan or trials of the world give you trouble?
If God turns from you, or even a whole nation, who can make him look on you again,
Elihu also tells Job to tell God “I have taken my punishment, and I will stop from here on.
He is saying; Job you have added being rebellious, you shake your fist to God, and you are speaking angry words against him.
Chapter 35
Elihu tells Job.
Do you think you’re right, by saying; you’re right and God is wrong.
Elihu is accusing Job of things he didn’t say.
Job says onto the wicked. (Chapter 21:15) Who is God, and why should we obey him? What will it get me for being righteous?
He wasn’t speaking of himself.
Then Elihu says, I will answer you and you’re 3 friends.
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; (Jobs wickedness has hurt others) and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. (you might have help others.)
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they (men) make the oppressed to cry: (men like Pharaoh and Judas) they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. (This is the devil, that’s what he’s called in the period of the tribulation, but he’s not called the Almighty like God is)
The crying out of these men, isn’t in worship to God, it’s because the trouble they have gotten into.
It’s not the same kind of crying that King David did.
Then he says in verses 10-11
That the wicked don’t ask, where is God?
To gives comfort, and the one who gives us more wisdom than the animals.
These evil men cry out but there is no answer, because their heart is in the wrong place.
God is saying he doesn’t hear wicked men.
That’s why I tell lost people, that their prayer goes no higher than the ceiling.
Elihu is telling Job even dough you can’t see God now like you want; you will see him on that judgment day.
This is not a judgment of salvation.
Then again he starts calling Job a fool.
Chapter 36
Elihu continuing speaking.
Remember chapter 33:6 Elihu said “I’m that mediator you been wishing for”.
He’s no longer acting as a mediator, because he is saying “I will tell you, so this is not from God.”
Elihu says; he has to defend God.
In verse
4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
Elihu is speaking very highly of himself.
This is what happens when men get puffed up on themselves.
Then he says; That the Lord will receive anyone, who calls on him.
He doesn’t bless the wicked, but blesses the righteous.
Elihu is telling Job how God deals with the righteous, how we’ll be seating on thrones, like kings, and how it’s going to be forever.
He says; that if a Christian starts to sin, then he points out their trouble that they are in, he shows them what’s right, and tells them to repent from their unbelief.
If they listen and start obeying him, they will prosper, (doesn’t mean material things) and they will live rejoicing the Lord.
Then in verse: He’s speaking about Christians
12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Now we’re talking about the righteous, if they don’t repent, and obey, they will lose the battles that confront them for not having the word of God to stand on. Eph 6.
1 John 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, (ask for forgiveness) and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Mark 3:28-29
28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
Now he’s speaking about lost people in 13-14
13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Just like it says in chapter 35:9-10 they won’t seek God for help, they’ll go to the bank or to psychiatrist, and they’ll go to a friend, or a priest or pastor, instead of seeking God first.
14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
The lost.
Back to the Christian
15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
He’ll free the righteous from their troubles, and tells them “Let those who hear, hear”
Matt 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matt 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Matt 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Elihu goes on to say; I just told you what God will do for the righteous.
But the Lord is doing to you, what he does to the wicked.
He’s condemning Job, and we know that Job is innocent.
Instead of doing what:
2 Cor 1:3-4
3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Now he starts cautioning Job and tells him not keep his anger at God.
Be wise and get right with God, so his anger will be turned away from him.
There is no escaping his judgment with money or gold, you cannot use them to deliver yourself from the judgment of God.
And he says that even the darkness is not dark enough that God can’t find you.
He is also telling Job, to leave sin, and to except the suffering.
If we remember this what Moses did when he left the Egyptians to be with his people.
Elihu tells Job; that God is all powerful, and there is no one who can teach like he does.
Who can tell him that he is wrong on his chastisement or his judgment?
Elihu says; Give God the glory for all he has done, so men can see, and their able to see it from a distance.
Meaning what it says in 1 Cor 13:12 “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part”
From verse 27 to Chapter 37 verse 13
I’m not absolutely such of what these verses mean.
I know that he’s speaking about how powerful God is.
But they have some who say he’s speaking about tribulation period.
What it means exactly I’m not sure, but either way it shows Gods power.
Then verses 14-18 Elihu is asking Job, Do you know why God can control all of this?
He’s telling Job, stop and look at all what God can do.
Elihu says: Job since you know so much teach us how we should approach God, because we don’t know how to speak to him, because we know so little about him.
Elihu says; we can’t see the Lord, because the clouds are dark and thick.
We cannot understand the power of God, but we know he is just and merciful, and he doesn’t destroy us.
We do fear him, and those who think they have great wisdom, that doesn’t mean anything to him.
Chapter 38
The Lord speaks to Job.
What the Lord is saying, who is misusing my words.
Instead of his words bringing light, it’s bringing darkness.
Job has been saying along that he wants to talk to God face to face.
Now the Lord does talk to Job in a whirlwind, and I’m sure it was a deep voice.
I’m sure Job is having second thoughts about facing God.
God is saying: you wanted some answers from me, demanding them, well here I’m, but instead of me answering you, you’re going to answer me
The rest of Chapter 38-39 the Lord ask Job several questions, and he couldn’t answer not one.
So the Lord is saying who are you that I have to account to you.
Chapter 40
God is saying, Job do you still want to argue with me?
All of the sudden Job who has been saying all along that he was innocent, is now saying I’m wretched.
Now that he is confronted by God, he can see that what it says in Isa 64:6 is true “all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags”
Job has said once and even twice that he wanted to confront God, but now he saying: I will cover my mouth, and I will say no more.
The Lord is telling Job, be a man now, you said these things, so let’s see if you’re going to stand behind them.
I will ask you a question, and you will answer me.
Are you going to keep on talking about me, putting down my justice, and condemning me, so you can show your right?
Job are you as strong as I’am? Do you have a voice of authority?
Job if you are then show yourself to be like me, be perfect in all that you do, have the light of glory, show your splendor.
God is saying be like me and show your anger, because when I do it, things happen.
Let’s see what you can do with those who are proud and don’t need you.
Bring justice to the wicked, and put them in their place.
Show them the dust they came from, so they can hide their face in humility.
In verse 14-24 God tells Job
14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
If you can do that Job, then I will allow that your own righteousness is enough.
You don’t need me as a savior, because you have been right, and I have been wrong.
15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
What we read here is that he made man and animals at the same period, so that does away with man evolve from apes.
This animal is one that we don’t know about, because the description the Lord uses in these verses, doesn’t sound like any animal that I’ve heard of, some translations say that the word behemoth means hippopotamus. We’ll see that it’s not.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
Have you even seen a tail of a hippopotamus, it’s very little; I wouldn’t say it looks like a cedar tree.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
The Lord says that this animal is the biggest, strongest he made.
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
I would have to say that is some big creature. I believe he’s speaking about a dinosaur.
Remember in my teaching called God and Science the scriptures show that there were dinosaurs.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
No one can catch this animal.
Here’s another animal just like the one we just read about.
And this is not a crocodile.
Chapter 41
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan(la-fy- a- fan) with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed iron? or his head with fish spears?
8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Why is the Lord all of the sudden starts talking about these great creatures.
What he is showing is that if a creature this mighty, strong, and big, was made by God, then what does this say about the creator?
10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
If no one can stand before this animal, then can anyone or anything conquer our Lord?
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
I owe no one, because everything is mine.
In the rest of the verses it speaks about the Leviathan(la-fy- a- fan) again on how powerful it is.
We also see that this animal is a fire breathing dragon, verses 19-21
19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Isa 27:1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (we know it comes from the sea because of verse 15 it says that it had scales)
And in Isa 30:6 it says that this Leviathan is also a fiery flying serpent
These verses also have a spiritual meaning.
The word serpent and dragon are use in scriptures, meaning the devil.
And if we look down at verse 34 you can see that spiritually these verses are also are speaking about the devil.
34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king (devil) over all the children of pride.
You might think I’m crazy for believing the word of God.
Because I say there were fire breathing flying dragons.
When I gave my life to the Lord, I said, I would believe everything in his word, because if I didn’t, it says in Heb 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please him”
Chapter 42
1 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Lord I know you can do anything you want.
And no one can hide anything from you.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Lord I’m the one, who has said things that were foolish,
I said things that I knew nothing about.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job is saying, Lord you have demanded of me to speak, and now I’m going to answer you.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Job says Lord I have heard of you by listening about you.
But now because of what I have been through, I can see you.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
He has already said in chapter 40:4 that he was vile (wretched) and now he is saying that he hates himself, and that he needs to repent in dust and ashes.
Remember that’s what they did when they were in sorrow and humility.
7 And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
The Lord was satisfied with what Job had said and done.
But now the Lord turns and says to the other 3 men, my anger is against you and the way you have misused my words.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
The Lord tells them what to do.
Go to Job and make a burnt offering for yourselves.
And I will accept your offering, through Job (just like he did for his children).
And I will not destroy you like I should, for the things you have said.
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.
10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
After the Lord accepted his prayer for his friends, he gave Job twice has much as he had before.
What would have happen if Job had not forgiven his friends?
How can the Lord bless you when you are holding a grudge against someone?
When we thing we’ve had a great lost, it says in:
Phil 3:7-9
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(The things that I though was important to me, now mean nothing to me, because of Christ)
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
(All these things mean nothing to me, when I compare it to the excellency knowledge of the Lord)
(We need to forget what we though was important, and now look at it as trash, to give Jesus our all)
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
(And in doing this, we can now become one with him, no longer thinking we’ve done something to deserve what we have in him)
1 Peter 3:14, 17-18
14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye (If we suffer for the glory of God, happy are we) and be not afraid of their (the ones who do evil) terror, neither be troubled;
Job didn’t do this, but the Lord has shown us through this book and these scriptures how to handle trials and tribulations. We do not have to go through it like Job?
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
(Sometimes it is the will of God that we suffer, unlike what other religions say)
(It is better that we suffer when we’re in Gods will, than out of it)
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
(Look at how Jesus suffered for us, and he was in the will of the Father, he died and then made alive in the Spirit, so at the end, we will always come out on top)
1 Peter 4:12-13
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
(Some of us think that when something goes wrong in our life, we’ve done something wrong, not always true, and don’t be surprise when it does happen.)
(But when we do go through them remember Ps 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.)
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
(This is what’s wrong with Christianity no one wants to partake of the suffering)
(Again it’s saying at the end we will be exceeding glad)
(Bottom line trust in God)
Verses 11-17 shows how the Lord gave everything back to Job.
In closing:
So far what we have learned about the devil is:
He can’t foresee the future, he said Job would curse God, he didn’t.
We’ve learn that he can’t be everywhere at the same time, back in the first chapter God ask the devil where have you been? And the devil said I’ve been down at earth so he can’t be everywhere at the same time like God can.
The devil isn’t all knowing, because if he was, he wouldn’t have entered into this contest with the Lord, knowing he was going to lose at the end, and Job was going to be blessed at the end, and that’s one thing the devil doesn’t want is for us to get blessed.
We have also learned that the devil can’t break through Gods protection around us, that’s why he had to get permission to attack Job.
So is the devil equal to God in power? NO.
If Job after going through all of this and ended up praising God, then we should do the same.
1 Peter 1:6 So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while.
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Ps 91:9-16
If you make the Lord your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter, no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home. For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go. They will hold you up with their hands so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone. You will trample upon lions and cobras; you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet! The Lord says, "I will rescue those who love me.I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation."