Job Speaks on Death. Job 13 & 14

 

Job 13 & 14 – Job Speaks on Death

 

In the last part of Chapter 13 Job expresses the desire to know how many sins and iniquities he has so he will understand why he is being treated as he is. He feels that he is rotting away. He cannot see any point to his suffering at all.

 

Chapter 14 Job asks, “when the sun goes down, what happens to the shadow? It is gone. Like a flower that has been cut down, or as a shadow that disappears, is my life. And yet God sees me and deals with me.”

 

“If a man die, shall he live again?” Even in death Job knows that God is going to call him, and he will answer that call. Death is not the end of it all.

 

In chapter 19 we will read that Job says, “I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.” Job 19:25-27.

 

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Job's Reply to his Three Friends. Job 12 &13

 

Job 12 & 13 – Job’s Reply to his Three Friends

 

He says, “You three think you have all the answers. You are the people, and wisdom will die with you!” Job knows as much as they know. The problem is that they have not spoken to the situation as it really is. They did not speak of a God of mercy and a God of grace, but a God of law. They brought in experience and tradition and legality, but they didn’t bring in the truth.

God is to be praised and honored. This is a good lesson in this book.

He tells them, “You three are in a comfortable position and you are able to give advice to me, but I am slipping, I am falling, and you have no word for me at all.”

That is the time we need someone to help us and comfort us.

Job would like to bypass his friends and appeal to God directly. He wants to reason with God. If only someone had been there to tell Job about the grace and the mercy of God and how God wanted to help him.

 

In Chapter 13 he tells them that when they are accusing him of committing some sin and that God is judging him, they are walking deceitfully for God. They are not representing God as they should. Job says God is going to judge them for misrepresenting Him.

Job statement of faith was “Thou he slays me, yet will I trust in Him, but I will maintain mine own ways before Him.” This means he will go into the presence of God and will defend himself there.

The minute we go into the presence of God to start defending our self, we will lose the case. When we stand before Him, we can only plead guilty, because He knows us. He is the moral ruler. We should cast our self on the mercy of the court. God has a mercy seat. That is the only way to escape the penalty. “He shall be our Salvation.” Salvation is Jesus Christ. You either trust Him or you don’t. “There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12

Job is frightened and is telling God what to do. We must admit that a lot of our praying is giving orders to God. But God doesn’t move that way. God says, “I have a plan, and I am going to work in your life.” The primary purpose of prayer is to change us.

 

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Zophar Speaks. Job 11

 

Job 11 – Zophar Speaks

 

Eliphaz spoke as a man of experience. Bildad was like the scientist who thinks he can look at rocks and tell you how old the earth is. Zophar puts emphasis on the law.

He declares Job is trying to talk his way out of his situation. This is not true of Job. Zophar accuses Job of lying. He thinks he knows what God will do under a certain circumstance. He feels that Job ought to listen to him because he has the final word and that his word is, in fact, the word of God.

 

 Since God isn’t speaking. Zophar speaks for Him. The words he says to Job is really a blow, not a comfort.

 

He says the fact that Job is suffering as much as he is shows that Job is a lot worse than his friends even dreamed he was. He asks Job, “Canst thou by searching find God?” No man can discover God; God is revealed. The only way you can know about God is what He is pleased to reveal of Himself to us.

 

Zophar gives a long speech about God which is tremendous. It just doesn't touch the need of Job. He goes on to say, “if you would just deal with your sin that is in your life and quit fighting it, God would hear and answer your prayers and restore you.” He predicts the absolute and complete judgment of Job. It is an attack upon Job.

 

 

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Job Continues His Answer to Bildad. Job 10

 

Job 10– Job Continues His Answer to Bildad.

 

Job cannot understand why he must suffer while there are wicked men who are not suffering. There are times when we all ask this question.

He wonders whether God sees him in his true condition.

 

There is a Man in the glory who understands. He knows exactly what we feel.

 

Job said that he found himself in a very awkward situation. “God knows that I am not wicked, and yet I cannot get out of His hand. I must go through all this, and I don’t see why I should be put through this.”

 

Job needed a little humility. Patience and humility are a fruit of the Holy Spirit produced in your life through trying experiences. God is going to produce both humility and patience in Job.

 

It wasn’t that Job was a naturally patient man, that quality would have increased his self-confidence and his conceit. His patience broke down, and he was crying out to God in impatience.

 

We see that God was making him patient, and God was giving him humility.

During this time of testing, death was something he desired. He felt that death would put him out of his misery. He wishes for complete oblivion. To wish you hadn’t been born is a complete waste of time, wishing you were dead won’t help either. When people face death, they really want to live.

 

A lot of God’s saints today have proud, hard hearts. Sometimes God must deal with us as He dealt with Job.

 

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Job Answers Bildad. Job 9

 

Job 9 – Job Answers Bildad

 

Much of what Bildad had said was true, but his words hadn’t met Job’s needs. Job needed the gospel at this point. He needed to know how a man could be just before God. He needs his questions answered, and his friends are not answering them. Job feels like God is far removed from him. He knows God as the Creator of the stars and universe, but he doesn’t know anything about God’s tender mercy. Job knows that he wouldn’t stand a chance if he came in the presence of God.

 

Job does not say he is a perfect man before God, but he does say that he is a pretty good man, a righteous man. He recognizes that before God, he could not defend himself.

There are many today who, because they don’t know the Word of God, feel that they will be able to stand before God and meet His standards and are well-pleasing to Him.

 

The only Man who ever met God’s standards was the Lord Jesus Christ. He shows us by His life that we cannot meet God’s standards, that we need a Savior. By His death He can save us.

 

Job’s complaint was, “If there were only Someone who could put His hand in the hand of God and could put His other hand in my hand and bring us together, then I would have a mediator.”

 

Paul wrote in I Tim. 2:5; “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.”

Job speaks in the bitterness of his soul. He is tired of life, and he is going to say exactly how he feels. He is plain and honest about his sad plight and his wretched condition.

 

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Bildad the Shuhite Speaks. Job 8

 

Job 8 – Bildad the Shuhite Speaks

 

Bildad is one who thinks he knows everything. He begins by telling Job that listening to him is like listening to the wind blow.

To be hurtful, he tells Job that the reason Job’s children were destroyed was because they were sinners. Bildad had no right to say that, and we know that wasn’t the reason because of Satan’s meeting with God in heaven.

He further tells Job that if he were lily white, as Job has given the impression, God would hear his prayer and heal and restore him.

 

We know that when all this is over, Job will greatly increase because God is going to double everything he had.

Bildad’s statement, “We are but of yesterday and know nothing.” Is true, but Bildad doesn’t feel like he knows nothing. He means that Job knows nothing. However, the statement was true of Bildad. Bildad says the past will teach us. Man assumes more than he could possibly know.

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 3:14. The only way we can learn about eternal things is from the Word of God.

 

Bildad accuses Job of being a hypocrite because he thinks Job has been covering up something.  He tells Job that’s as good as leaning on a spider’s web. When trouble comes, it won’t hold you.

 

Will God “cast away a perfect man”? No, He won’t. There is none. “…There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Rom. 3:10

He finishes by telling Job that he has come to nothing because he is a great sinner. Bildad is no more helpful than Eliphaz was.

 

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Job Answers Eliphaz. Job 6 & 7

 

Job 6 & 7 – Job Answers Eliphaz

 

Job begins to explain how terrible his grief is. He tells Eliphaz that he needs to understand what Job’s question was because Eliphaz missed the point altogether. Job tells him that he is crying out and Eliphaz can see his misery but shows no pity at all. He says he wouldn’t be crying out if nothing was hurting him. He goes as far as to say that he wishes God would destroy him, get rid of him, let loose His hand and cut him off. He wants to die. He says he had nothing to live for and he is tired and can’t stand any more. He tells Eliphaz that he should have shown pity and sympathized with him, but he didn’t. He said their sympathy was like an oasis in the desert, but it was only a mirage. He said they are like a pool that is covered with ice and snow. It is deceitful.

He told them if they had something useful to say, he will listen because he is teachable. What they had said already was good, but it didn’t touch Job’s case at all.

These three men didn’t understand the true situation, and all three would conclude that Job had sinned and won’t confess the truth. Since he won’t confess his secret sin, he is being judged.

 

Chapter 7

 

Job is a very sick man, and his friends seem to ignore that. It has been said that a friend is one who knows you and still loves you. These friends really don’t know Job.

Job senses that he is being tried, but he hasn’t any notion what is really behind all of this. He admits that he has sinned, but he says he is getting more than he deserves.

When a man’s integrity is broken down, he becomes an easy mark for Satan. This is the thing that happens to many people today who attempts to fight life alone. He begins to hit the bottle or drops into sin. Satan has a chance to attack him because the man’s integrity has broken down. This is the situation with Job.

 

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