Job Chapters 20-21 Lessons 15-16 What’s happened so far in Job? Job 1: Job’s Family, Treasures, Reputation Job 2: Satan’s Assault on Job Job 3-7: 1st Dialog with Eliphaz • Job Overcome with Grief • Eliphaz believes Job deserves punishment Job 8-14: 1st Dialog with Bildad & Zophar • Job’s Despair (wants hearing before God) • Bildad believes Job and his children deserved the punishment, they forgot God and were hypocrites • Zophar believes Job should repent What’s happened so far in Job? Job 15-21: 2nd Dialog with Eliphaz, Bildad, & Zophar • Job wrestles with his condition, proclaims his friends to be enemies, and continues to plead his innocence • Eliphaz believes Job is blind to his wickedness, arrogant, and prideful • Bildad presses Job to accept their view that he is wicked therefore being punished • Chapter 20: Zophar argues about the condition of the wicked; He believes Job to be wicked. • Chapter 21: Job discusses the wicked thriving Lesson 15: It Is Not Fair that the Wicked Do Not Suffer

What is Zophar’s main argument?

1. Do you agree with what Zophar says about the wicked? Explain. Is he correct with his assessment of Job? Lesson 15: It Is Not Fair that the Wicked Do Not Suffer

3. People sometimes envy the wicked that prosper. Read Job 21:16. • How did Job view these people? • What does this teach us about the reason why Job served God? • What lesson can we learn from this? Lesson 15: It Is Not Fair that the Wicked Do Not Suffer

4. How do many people react when the wicked get away with doing evil?

5. Read Job 21:22-26. Regarding the eventual fate of the wicked, what is Job trying to say here?

6. What is the danger of using one’s earthly prosperity or misfortune as a measurement of their spirituality? Lesson 15: It Is Not Fair that the Wicked Do Not Suffer

2. While Zophar may have been correct about some things about the wicked, Job added more to what he said. Notice what Zophar says in chapter twenty and how Job responds to him in chapter 21? • 20:5; 21:7 • 20:6; 21:7 (Typo in the book) • 20:21-23, 28; 21:9-10 • Any others that you found? Lesson 16: Can We Complain Too Much?

How would you define complaining?

1. Read Numbers 14:26-35. What happened to those people who complained?

2. Why does Paul remind us not to be like the Israelites, I Corinthians 10:10?

3. Is it ever appropriate to complain? Explain. Lesson 16: Can We Complain Too Much?

4. What’s the opposite of complaining?

5. The Bible teaches us to be content (Philippians 4:10-13; I Timothy 6:6-8). What benefit does contentment bring?

6. What attitude does God teach us to have as we suffer? Read James1:3-5; I Peter 4:12-13; II Corinthians 12:7-11 Lesson 16: Can We Complain Too Much?

7. List three things that you will do to help you complain less.