session 5 - Chapters 6-10 (2/21/21)

Finishing Job’s 2nd Speech 6:24-30 Summary: If you can show me my ______, I will happily ______it! 7:1-21 Summary: I am ______and God sees it but He ______! What hope do we in 21st century Wisconsin have when we read 7:21?

Reminder of the Five Usual Solutions to Suffering 1. Confession is good even if you do not know what you have done wrong. 2. There is value in suffering to improve yourself. 3. Suffering is frequently superficial, in other words it is not that bad. 4. Suffering is inevitable. 5. The reasons for suffering are mysterious so your time and energy is better spent planning what to do next rather than figuring out the reasons. 8:1-4 Summary: God is ______to punish sin. How close to home did Bildad’s statement in v 4 strike Job?

8:5-7 Summary: ______and God will ______you. 8:8-10 Summary: Learn from ______or you will repeat ______. What is Bildad’s point in v 9?

8:11-22 Summary: People who ______God will be completely ______, so do not ______God! A papyrus reed can grow to be _____ feet tall. What does Bildad mean in vv 14-15?

Read Matthew 13:3, 5-6, 18, 20-21. The plants in Bildad’s and Jesus’ speeches are similar. Summarize Bildad’s whole speech in one sentence:

Which of the Five Usual Solutions to Suffering is this most like?

over Job 9:1-13 Summary: Man is a ______compared to God. Read Joshua 10:12-13 and Matthew 27:45 for instances of God doing what Job said in verse 7. Read 1 Kings 19:11-13 and Exodus 33:18-23 for instances of God doing what Job said in verse 11. Who are the cohorts of Rahab? Read Isaiah 30:7. 9:14-20 Summary: An ______man is still ______for God. 9:21-24 Summary: Being innocent ______. 9:25-26 Summary: Everything happens ______that it is ______. 9:27-31 Summary: I can’t ______anything, so ______? 9:32-35 Summary: I need ______to whom God will listen. 10:1-17 Summary: What more ______that I should still be ______? 10:18-22 Summary: Again, it would have been better if ______! Summarize Job’s whole speech in one sentence:

Which of the Five Usual Solutions to Suffering is this most like?