ࡱ> 8:7  bjbj~~ *(__44,jt""""""""$""""""""$zzz"""z"zzV@ޮh8 :0j%x.#N.#.#8z"""d"""j"""".#"""""""""4X : Helps on the Book of Job Overall Structure The book opens and closes in prose Chapters 1 & 2 introduce; Chapter 42 ends The text was pried apart verse/poetry used for the conversations Jobs three friends: Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar Eliphaz speaks to Job in Chapters 4-5, 15, 22; Job responds to Eliphaz in Chapters 6-7, 16-17, 23-24 Bildad speaks to Job in Chapters 8, 18, 25, and 26.5-14; Job answers Bildad in Chapters 9-10, 19, 26.1-4, 27-31 (here Job is actually addressing God and his friends indirectly) Zophar speaks to Job in Chapters 11 and 20; Job responds to Zophar in Chapters 12-14 and 21 Elihu, the youth and his discourse is Chapters 32-37 God speaks in Chapters 38, 39, 40 huge rhetorical questions The key rubrics talking points of Dr. Williams presentation A man and three day Words I wish I had never been born Think now who that was innocent ever perished (Ch. 4.7) Youd bargain over a friend (Ch. 6.27) Let me alone till I swallow my spit (Ch. 7.19) Violence (Ch. 19.7) I will hold fast to my righteousness (Ch. 27.5-6) The young man of many words The voice from the whirlwind Job shall pray for you and I will forgive you (Ch. 42.8) The death of childrenchildren who die/the innocent who die (Ch. 5:3-4) This book is not an answer to the problem of evil Central question/core of the text: intimacy with God or God and human beings in relationship; the book is a millennial conversation about life with God; Ch. 10: 8-22; Ch. 13: 7ff; an asymmetrical relationship: between God and humans Other points God and Satan: You moved me to do evil against him [Job] without cause (Ch. 2.3); Satan is a naysayer figure; not the Devil as referenced in Christian Foundational Writings Why? Job asks/continues to probe/tries for answers: 3:11ff; Caution of you get what you deserve The advice of the friends how easily humans trot out our theologies/ uphold God/ because God does justice; but humans play out or live out actions African custom: when greeting someone they say, I see you and response I am here Jobs friends dont actually see him. Let me alone till I swallow my spit (Ch. 7.19) Job says to God youre after meleave me alone (kind of like Jeremiah being seduced) 7:21 You will seek me, but I shall not be. We huddle around the figure [Job} to share the pain -- a moral modesty in the face of pain and suffering; and (fill in a name) lifted up (his/her) voice and said speaking about the millennial conversation about life with this God Significant passage: 19:25-27 Jobs three essentials: 1. My God; 2. My Integrity; 3. My Pain Job never gives up any of these; Job never rejects that God exists = 1. Job knows he has not done anything wrong = 2. Job knows his pain is real; he doesnt say its easy= 3. If Job gave up number 1 or 2 Job would have given up on God, on religion but he does neither; its hard to maintain integrity when others seem to give or offer reasons Ch. 31 a chapter of ifs Jobs sense of social justice comes into play (vs. 15, 19ff) what it is like to be poor; 31: 40 The words of Job are ended Ch. 33.14 kind of empty words coming from Elihu; Ch.35: 9-10; Ch. 38: God speaks from the whirlwind addressing more the problem of intimacy God does speak to Job; God is in relationship; alternating images of space/time; Ch. 39:13-18 images of the ostrich who doesnt care about its children; Jobs answer -- 40:3-5; Im not going to keep up the conversation with you. Ch. 42: 5-6 Job doesnt mean to repent; Job means I abase myself I honor who God is Ch. 42: 7 ff Gods response to Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar; Job prays for those who abuse him God restores the fortunes of Job but do these replace the first losses? Do the new children make up for those lost?? If you have a choice to an answer to the problem of evil or a response involving the matter of intimacy which would you take? 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