Reading 1 - Job 35:9,10 "Men cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful. But no one says,...

Reading 1 - Job 34:5-9 Elihu is speaking: "Job says, 'I am innocent, but God denies me justice. Although I am right, I am considered a...

Reading 1 - Job 33 "I am just like you before God; I too have been taken from clay" (Job 33:6). Elihu takes the place of God -- he is now...

Reading 1 - Job 29 "Job 29 is a significant [chapter], because it is here that Job makes his crucial error. In his desperation to prove...

Reading 1 - Job 28:12 "But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell?" (Job 28:12). "Even nature in her silent...

Reading 1 - Job 25 Job 25: Bildad virtually concedes Job's argument. His few words might be paraphrased: "We do not know what your sin...

Reading 1 - Job 23:3 "If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling!" (Job 23:3). "In Job's uttermost extremity he...

Reading 1 - Job 22-31 Job 22-31: The third cycle of speeches: Eliphaz (Job 22); Job's reply (Job 23; 24); Bildad (Job 25); Job's reply...

Reading 1 - Job 21:27-34 Job 21:27-34, summarized: In listening to the crude and insulting words of Zophar, it becomes apparent to Job...

Reading 1 - Job 20 Job 20: "Zophar replies to the second test experienced by the patient Job, claiming that any seeming prosperity is...

Reading 1 - Job 19:25 "I know that my Redeemer lives" (Job 19:25). Yahweh is the redeemer (Heb "goel") of His people: Exo 6:6; Psa 19:14;...

Reading 1 - Job 16:2 "I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all!" (Job 16:2). "Wearisome" (RV mg). Job's...

Reading 1 - Job 15 Job 15-21: In this second cycle, the 3 friends merely restate their arguments from a different angle -- growing more...

Reading 1 - Job 14:4 "Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!" (Job 14:4). "O that a clean might come out of an unclean..."...

Reading 1 - Job 13:15 "Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him" (Job 13:15). "Though He slay me, I will trust Him," Said the sainted...

Reading 1 - Job 12 "Zophar's air of superiority aroused the ire of Job, who answered with heavy sarcasm: 'Thou are the people without...

Reading 1 - Job 11:5 Zophar (who speaks in Job 11; 20) is content with mere assumption, and dogmatism (Job 11:6; 20:4). He also has a too...

Reading 1 - Job 10:1 Job speaks out of his sufferings: "I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak...

Reading 1 - Job 9:22 "It is all the same; that is why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked' " (Job 9:22). "God knows...

Reading 1 - Job 8 Bildad (who speaks in Job 8; 18; 25) rests his philosophy on tradition (Job 8:8-10; 18:5-20). Like Eliphaz, Bildad has...