The Book of Job

Consider God’s response to Job in Chapters 40 and 41. How does God’s response speak against the consolation given by Job’s three friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar?

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5 thoughts on “The Book of Job

  1. Bill Alvarez says:

    job feels like he is being punished, mocked, tricked ect. He also asked his friends to have pity on him because he claims his that gods fist has stuck him. Zophar his friend responds by basically trying to show him how blind he is on the subject , giving out all sorts of examples such as the sinner joy is brief and in the end will pay so that he can realize. Job does not approve. Eliphaz strikes also claiming that his guilt must be great and crimes inconceivable. Doesn’t seem to be consolation between them. There does not seem to be anything against gods response.

  2. Ahmed says:

    Job is punished for his sins, and suffers from his great illenss through his fault, he must have endure from his wife , Elihu, who tells him to “cruse God and die” Job responds to her by if they have recieved good things at the hand of God. Job so called friends Eliphaz, Blidad and zophar are not much of help, either. upon hearing of Job’s misfortune the three men leave leave their homes intending to offer their friend consolation and comfort. Eliphza is the first to respond to Job long lament. Job Suffering , he suggest, is divine displine. Even if that was case, Job asks his punishment for outstripped and offense he had committed. Bildad has answered, God does not discort justice, Bildad asserts, therefore, Job’s children have offended GOD.This is fruitless because, Job contends no mortal can’t be Just before God. Zophar is the last Job’s friends to attempt an explanation for Job’s suffering. Job does not believe the right things. God’s is truly wise, so Job is gulity. with friends likes them who needs enemies. Job is responding to this by arguing with his friends and railing at God. Job is misinformed about his relationship with God.

  3. In Job’s discussion with his friends, they had come up with three questions: Is God just? Does God run the universe on strict principles of justice? How is Job’s suffering to be explained? Job and his friends had assumed that they had enough perspective on the world to question whether or not God rules justly. God’s response to this is that Job and his friends are wrong, that their ideas about God’s justice were too simple and do not match the complexity of God’s complex world. God then gives Job a tour in which he shows Job that the universe is too complex, yet God sees everything. God then explains how this world is good, but not perfect and says that we live in a complex world that is not designed to prevent suffering. God then says how Job and his friends were in no position to make such accusations because they do not have a big enough perspective on the world to understand it.

  4. Champale says:

    God appears to Job to question why does Job speak so much when he knows very little by presenting Job God’s creation of the natural universe and the world and God explains how the world is vast, complex, interconnected with one another, but, yet, it’s controlled by one and that no man partakes and is given any credit of
    God’s creation except God. In other words, God shows that human beings such as, Job and his three friends, are limited in what we know about God’s plan of creation including any kind of fate that mankind might go through such as, suffering, and that fate will always be a mystery that is yet to come no matter how insensible it might seem. Because of this, since mankind isn’t able to tell what’s going to happen in the future, people should then just accept and live with the good or bad things that might come around in life because God’s plan of creation was designed to have an affect for the past, present and future.

  5. Kayla Brown says:

    God’s response speaks against Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar because he explains that he (GOD) is almighty and that humans can not comprehend all the inner workings of the universe. Job was correct in his explanation of God and his friends were not.

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