Job 19:1-29 — Judgment is Coming
CERTAINTY OF FINAL VINDICATION EASES THE PAIN OF PRESENT REJECTION AND PUTS FALSE ACCUSERS IN ULTIMATE JEOPARDY
Job 18:1-21 — Bildad’s Second Speech — What the Wicked Should Dread!
THE DESTINY OF THE WICKED CANNOT BE THE DESTINY OF THE RIGHTEOUS
Job 16:1 – 17:16 — Job’s Growing Complaint and Urgent Appeal to God for Vindication
DESPONDENCY SETS IN AS THE TIME FOR VINDICATION EVAPORATES
Job 15:1-35 — Eliphaz’s Second Speech — Turning Up the Heat
THE REBUKE FOR IMPIETY ESCALATES TO A FULL-SCALE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DEMISE OF THE WICKED
Job 13:18 – 14:22 — Wrestling with the Painful Realities of Life — Flirting with Hopelessness
THE TROUBLESOME CONDITION OF HUMAN MORTALITY COMPOUNDED BY PERPLEXING DIVINE OPPOSITION LEAVES MANKIND IN DESPAIR WITH NO RELIEF
Job 12:1 – 13:17 — Job Complains against His Friends
WORTHLESS COUNSEL FAILS TO PLUMB THE DEPTHS OF THE WISDOM BEHIND GOD’S STRANGE WORKS
Job 11:1-20 — Zophar’s First Speech — Misapplying Good Theology
SUFFERING MUST INDICATE SECRET SINS THAT DEMAND REPENTANCE BECAUSE GOD KNOWS ALL IN HIS SECRET WISDOM
Job 9:1 – 10:22 — Job’s Response — Let Me Alone to Die in Peace
DESPAIR OVER INABILITY TO RESOLVE UNDESERVED SUFFERING RAISES 3 TROUBLING FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS
Job 8:1-22 — Bildad’s First Speech — God’s Justice Demands that Sin Be the Issue
THE RIGID TRADITIONALIST REMAINS ROOTED IN RETRIBUTION THEOLOGY
Job 6:1 – 7:21 — Job Attacks His Counselors and His God
JOB ATTACKS HIS COUNSELORS AND HIS GOD VIA LAMENTING AND COMPLAINING ABOUT HIS UNDESERVED SUFFERING
Job 4:1 – 5:27 — Eliphaz: Your Suffering is the Result of Your Sin
INSENSITIVE COUNSELORS WRONGLY APPLY THEIR LIMITED THEOLOGY IN HURTFUL WAYS (LIMITING GOD’S GOVERNANCE OF HIS UNIVERSE)
Job 3:1-26 — Initial Complaint of Job — 3 Death Wishes
WHEN TRANQUILITY ERUPTS INTO UNRELENTING TURMOIL OUR TROUBLED SPIRIT CAN STRENUOUSLY COMPLAIN