Sermon - AudioJob 24-28 - Audio
Job 24-28 Daily Reading
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Chapter 24.1-12: We read in these verses of the injustices that people do to one another. Job complains that God does nothing about them. It is the complaint of the ages--why does a good God do so little about evil.
Chapter 25: God's complaint about God and how he deals with humanity leads to an interesting comment from Bildad. Bildad holds that humanity is so low and unimportant in God's eyes that God can ignore what is happening. It is an inadequate view of humankind given what we know from Psalm 8 and from people being created in the image of God.
Chapter 26: Job continues to hold out God's greatness and sovereignty. He gives us a majestic picture of God--but does not demean man in the process.
27.11-12: Job chastises his "comforters" for their unwillingness to see reality. They are so stuck in their belief of how the world operates, that they ignore the way it really does.
Chapter 28 goes in a different direction. It is a wisdom poem that seeks to answer where wisdom can be found. The poem divides into three parts: human abilities, our inability to discover God's wisdom, and God as the one who finally and exclusively holds wisdom.
2 comments:
In Job 26:12 Rahab is mentioned. Is this THE Rahab or what is the meaning of Rahab. It was mentioned earlier in Job as well. Just curious.
Hi Rebecca,
Rahab is a Canaanite sea monster. In other places we find another sea monster called Leviathan.
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