Related Verses: Job 1-42 Leading Question: For you, what is the most important take-away from our study of the book of Job? As author of this study guide, I would focus on four points as...
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Related Verses: Job 1-2, 31, 42 Leading Question: Who gives the right assessment of Job’s character: Job himself, his friends, or God? We can look at Job’s character from three perspectives: at the beginning before...
Related Verses: Job 19:25-27 Leading Question: What light does the Old Testament context throw on the word “Redeemer” and what it might have meant to Job? This week’s lesson focuses on the famous “Redeemer” passage...
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 –...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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