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1 | Job 3:25 What is the thing Job feared? | Job 3:25 | Curious Christian | 170824 | ||
Job 3:25 What is the thing that Job feared the most? | ||||||
2 | Job 3:25 What is the thing Job feared? | Job 3:25 | Hank | 170825 | ||
Dear Curious: The context gives a clue to the thing Job greatly feared (Job 3:25). The beginning of Chapter 3 marks a change in Job's attitude from his patience shown in the discourse with his wife in Chapter 2. His wife, deriding him for holding on to his integrity, advised her husband to "Curse God and die!" (2:9). Job rebuked her, saying she spoke foolishness. As Chapter 3 opens, evidently Job has been suffering for a long time, although we don't know how long. Job's previous words of patience and trust are not evident in Chapter 3. Even though Job falls short of cursing God for his suffering and anguish, he nevertheless in this soliloquy is candid to admit his inntermost feelings, arguing that he would not have suffered so much had he not been conceived (3:3-10), or had he died at birth (3:11-19, or had he died immediately when his troubles began (3:20-26. ...... Job, plagued by suffering, now has come to view death as a deliverance from his misery. He leaves the reader with a strong implication that never being born is preferable to his wretched state which is -- so one may infer from Job's words -- one that Job conceives of as being forsaken by the Lord. Thus Job's fear does not center on a particular thing, but it is rather a more generic fear of prolonged suffering and anguish, of feeling forsaken, engendering the turmoil in his soul that he expresses vividly in 3:26: "I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes." --Hank | ||||||
3 | Job 3:25 What is the thing Job feared? | Job 3:25 | Curious Christian | 170833 | ||
Thank you Hank. I am tryintg to understand why God, who is all knowing, all powerful, and loving, would allow Job to suffer through such things. I understand God is way above my understanding and that I should simply trust and obey... but I have always been curious concerning the abtributes of God and my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I guess I am searching for some clue as to why God allowed Job to go through these terrible trials. Thanks for taking the time to share your insight. I appreciate your answer. Dwayne | ||||||
4 | Job 3:25 What is the thing Job feared? | Job 3:25 | Hank | 170841 | ||
Dwayne, the Book of Job does give us a clue, and a provocative one at that, concerning God's allowing His servant Job to suffer. It is not found in the advice of Job's wife, certainly, who told her husband to curse God and die. Nor is it found in the bumbling advice of Job's friends which is scarcely any better than Job's wife's advice. You'll need to go to the last chapter of the book to find it, in Job 42:1-6. Job emerged from his severe testing with a fresh appreciation of God's sovereigny and his own finitude; with renewed faith in the sufficiency of God in the believer's life and a clearer realization of the limits of his own wisom and the folly of his sin. Job finally and fully admits that his perspective has been limited and he comes to the point in his life when he humbly, willingly and, yes, thankfully, joyfully and totally submits to God's will and authority. ..... This, I believe, is the real message of the Book of Job. ..... The apostle Paul is another of God's servants who endured suffering and hardship at every turn, who, when the time of his departure was at hand, was able to say, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing" (2 Timothy 4:7,8). ..... Dwayne, I do appreciate your response and your kind thanks. In Him, Hank. | ||||||