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 is speaking with sincerity. However, what his “friends” believe about God is, for the most part, mere cultural assumptions. They are not biblically based.
The New Testament describes heaven and eternal life. But what does the Old Testament say about life after death?
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.
Bildad finally perks up and says something. He says something worth listening to. It is that no one is righteous before God.
Job asks why the wicked are not punished. They rebel against the light of God, and they get away with wicked deeds.
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.
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 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’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.
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.