Job chapter 27

Job is speaking with sincerity. However, what his “friends” believe about God is, for the most part, mere cultural assumptions. They are not biblically based.

Job chapter 26

Job mocks Bildad’s futile attempt to help him. He praises the illustrious greatness of God. He says the earth hangs in the emptiness of space.

Job chapter 25

Bildad finally perks up and says something. He says something worth listening to. It is that no one is righteous before God.

Job chapter 20

Zophar the Naamathite is enraged at Job. He asserts that people suffer because they sinned. They have very little joy and will perish like feces.

Job chapter 18

Bildad the Shuhite denounces Job. Again. He repeats the same old accusations as before.  They are not from the Bible. They are not true.

Job chapter 17

Job pours out the depth of his pain. He is emaciated and nearly blind. His friends are hostile. They hope to gain a reward for supposedly defending God.

Job chapter 16

Job’s friends wouldn’t listen to him. Instead, they keep explaining why he was suffering. So Job tells them they are miserable at providing comfort.

Job chapter 15

Eliphaz the Temanite asserts that Job does not fear God. He accuses Job of all sorts of sins against God, none of which Job had done.