by Justin Marple | Oct 29, 2013 | Job Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, Psalms, Job & Proverbs, TEACHING
Job 38 begins, ”Then YHWH answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:” God is not answering Elihu and will only answer the three friends at the end. He speaks out of a heavy windstorm. This is a theophany – a fancy way of saying that God appears to Job....
by Justin Marple | Oct 24, 2013 | Job Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, Psalms, Job & Proverbs, TEACHING
The book of Job has been a book not so much about suffering as it is about faith. Lindsay Wilson says, ”Suffering is simply the setting in which the issue of the book is raised.” Job has been bold and even confrontational in his speeches with his friends...
by Justin Marple | Oct 21, 2013 | Job Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, Psalms, Job & Proverbs, TEACHING
The third cycle of dialogue in Job shows the friends of Job reduced to silence because they are unable to refute Job. The cycle also gives Job the opportunity to make a final case that could be presented before God. We still await the evaluations of Elihu the Buzite...
by Justin Marple | Oct 7, 2013 | Job Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, Psalms, Job & Proverbs, TEACHING
Like a radio play with acts and scenes we might think of Job 15 as opening a new act. But already the ‘friends’ of Job give us little doubt about their role in the play. Of course, Satan makes it his job to accuse the people of God. Unfortunately even...
by Justin Marple | Sep 29, 2013 | Job Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, Psalms, Job & Proverbs, TEACHING
The book of Job demands that we let the prologue and the epilogue inform how we read the speeches of Job’s ”friends.” And yet we will see that some of what Eliphaz has had to say is so true that the New Testament (in two places) approvingly quotes...
by Justin Marple | Sep 29, 2013 | Job Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, Psalms, Job & Proverbs, TEACHING
We are going to begin this article with an overview of the speeches found in the book of Job and then begin to look specifically at the first speech. Job 3-37, covering most of the book, are speeches by Job and his three friends plus one: Job’s Lament (Job 3)...
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