• Job 38-42:6
  • Background
    • Job, the man
      • Upright (Job 1:1
      • Blessed with riches and family (Job 1:2-3
      • Peers in faith and righteousness - Noah and Daniel (Ezekiel 14:13-14
    • Satan attacks
      • Purpose: cause him to curse God
    • Satan attacks again!
      • Boils head to foot (Job 2:7
      • Wife encourages to curse
      • Job still does not sin (Job 2:9-10
  • Job’s complaint
    • Exalts God (Job 9:3
    • Feels he cannto bring his complaint before God (Job 9:17
    • Feels God has brought this calamity on him and desires an explanation (Job 10:1-2
    • Why do the wicked prosper? (Job 21:7-9
    • “If only I could present my case” (Job 23:1-7
    • Difficulty reconciling his calamity with his righteous life and God’s own righteousness and power.
  • God’s response - non-living elements
    • God’s power, presence, and wisdom in creation (Job 38:4-11
      • Earth
      • Sea
      • Stars
      • Clouds
      • Light and darkness
      • “Where were you?”
    • Job has neither power, wisdom, nor was present to create the earth and all that is in it.
    • Weather - without man’s assistance or presence (Job 38:22-30
      • Overflowing water
      • Path for thunderbolt
      • Division of light
      • God does not need man’s help to accomplish (Acts 17:25
    • Celestial bodies (Job 38:31-33
  • God’s response - living creation
    • Do you take care of them all? (Job 38:39-39:30
      • Lions and cubs
      • Birth of wild goats and deer
      • Wild donkeys
      • Wild oxen
      • Ostriches
      • Horses
      • Eagles
    • Speak!
  • God’s response
    • Intrinsic majesty (Job 40:8-14
      • If you speak as judge, show power and do something about it.
      • Romans 3:4
    • Mighty creatures
      • Behemoth (Job 40:15-24
      • Leviathan (Job 41
    • Job’s response
      • “I have uttered what I did not understand. Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”