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Related Verses: Job 27-32 Leading Question: If you had lots of questions to ask God and after a long silence he talked back but did not answer your questions, would you – like Job –...

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Related Verses: Job 27-32 Leading Question: In the end, God tells Job’s three friends that they need to repent. But he doesn’t say a thing about Elihu. Does that mean that Elihu had it right...

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Related Verses: Job 13 Leading Question: To what extent does Job establish a firm link between the believer’s hope and the resurrection and future life? In the lesson for December 17, the study guide takes...

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Related Verses: Job 10, 15 Leading Question: How is it possible for a man who shares the common guilt of all humankind to also claim to be innocent as Job did? The book of Job...

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Related Verses: Job 8:1-22; 11:1-20 Leading Question: Is it possible that the book of Job eliminates all possibilities of speaking of retributive punishment? This week’s lesson focuses on Job’s second and third “friends,” Bildad and...

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Related Verses: Job 2:11-13; 4 and 5 Leading Question: Can the words of Scripture be useful, even when they are taken out of context? This week’s lesson focuses on the “encouraging” words spoken by Job’s...

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Related Verses: 1 Kings 19; Job 3, 6, 7; Psalm 88; Jer. 20:14-18 Leading Question: Is God willing to listen to Christians who are so discouraged that they curse the day of their birth? Among...

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Related Verses: Job Leading Question: If all we had was the book of Job, what would it tell us about God and human suffering? Without the rest of Scripture, Job tells us little about God...

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Related Verses: Genesis 3, Job 1-2, Matthew 4, Luke 4 Leading Question: Is Satan’s attack on Job typical of his methods in dealing with humans? The title for this week’s lesson is simply a sneer...

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Related Verses: Job 1:1-5, 6-12 Leading Question: Why would God Almighty allow created beings to challenge his authority? In my years of teaching, I have found that Job, probably more than any other book in...

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Related Verses: Job 14:14, 15; 42:10-17 Leading Question: If one loses 10 children through disaster, does the blessing of an additional 10 children in the end make for a happy ending to the book of...

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