Today’s passage: Job 29
Helpful thoughts:
- Chapters 29-31 will go together as a unit.
- In chapter 29, Job will remember with fondness the past.
- In chapter 30, he will grieve the present.
- In chapter 31, he will make his request for the future.
- Job believed the blessing on his life was a gift from the Lord, that God had chosen to look on him favorably.
- The kindness Job chose to extend in sharing God’s favor on him resulted in accumulating a great deal of respect from others who knew who him.
Questions to consider:
- How does this description of Job’s life compare/contrast with what his friends have been assuming he was doing? If all these things were true, what severity of sin would have been necessary of Job to deserve all the suffering under his friends’ view of wickedness and judgment?
- What would be necessary for Job to remember concerning the blessing of the earlier years of his life? Why were they truly blessed? How could the wealth and the respect have become great temptations? If verses 2-5 weren’t in this chapter, what might it sound like?
- How does Job’s testimony give some example of what we learn from 1 Timothy 6:17-19?