Day #7

Sermon - Audio
Job 14-16 - Audio
Job 14-16 - Reading

Daily Insights - Please Comment

Job 14:1-12 = Job discusses the full order of things in life: We are born, our lives are short, we die, and then we will be resurrected. Job discusses the difference between human life and nature.

Q. What implications does "shortness of life" on earth have in the story?
Q. How would the passages in Psalm 90:10, Isaiah 40:6-8 and 1 Peter 2:11-12 fit into this?

Job 14:13 = Job is claiming that even Sheol (hell) would be a better place to be then in God's wrath. Job is calling out to God to “remember me,” not as mere human, nor as a divine creation, nor as a wretched sufferer, but simply as the man Job; in his naked personhood." - WBC (Job) -

Job 14:14-16 = This is where we start seeing the true heart of Job. Even though all this stuff is happening to/around him, he longs to be with God who is seemingly doing this to him or at least is allowing it all to happen. This is one of the first times that Job shows signs of "hope" in the possibility for things to change. Job longs for death not just for his pain to be over, but for total vindication from this life.

Job 15 = Eliphaz is concerned that Job is heaping this suffering and persecution upon himself by the things that he is saying. Eliphaz claims that Job is no longer being humble or wise in his laments (v2-6). Eliphaz brings up arguments that Job has used throughout his lamenting and tries to convince Job that there must be something he has done.

Job 16:1-5 = Job is tired of listening to his friends, who supposedly came to comfort him originally (2:11). He wants his friends to see that they are of little to no help to him right now in his current state.

Job 16:6-End = Job ends with some of his strongest language yet. At the end we see Jobs recognition that it is only God who will vindicate him.

Q. Why did Job view the release from this life as a release from prison?
Q. Does this tell us anything about our longings or our eternal passions in the midst of His story?