Today’s passage: Job 9
Helpful thoughts:
- Job’s reply to Bildad covers both chapters 9 and 10.
- Bildad had said in 8:20, “God will not reject a blameless man…” Job asks, “How can a man be in the right before God?” No one is truly blameless.
- Job believes that Bildad has oversimplified the way God works, and he responds by reminding Bildad just how big and magnificent God is.
- Rahab (Verse 13) was the name of a mythological beast in the Ancient Near East. This is not a reference to the woman Rahab from Jericho.
Questions to consider:
- If we followed every person and charted out how “good” and how “evil” they had been, would their blessings and sufferings in life all work out with statistical precision? Is that how God works? Is that how good works work? Why does blessing come on any of us?
- If you know the conclusion of this book, how do verses 15-21 foreshadow the ending? What does Job think would happen if he were to be able to have a conversation with God? In what ways is he perplexed and why?
- What has Job not yet accounted for? Where does he think suffering comes from? How is his limited thinking causing him to be in further distress?