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Adapted from The Literary Structure of the Old Testament by David A. Dorsey, p. 170.
Major Themes
Job as a Righteous Man
Suffering
The Greatness, Sovereignty, and
Wisdom of God as Creator and
Controller of the Universe
The Creatureliness of Man
Purpose Statement and
Message
The response of the righteous man to suffering ought
to be worship and submission to God and His
sovereignty.
The basic question of the book is, Why do the
righteous suffer if God is loving and all-powerful?
Suffering itself is not the central theme; rather, the
focus is on what Job learns from his sufferingthe
sovereignty of God over all creation. The debate in
chapters 337 regards whether God should allow this
suffering to happen to a person who is innocent. The
oversimplified solutions offered by Jobs three friends
are simply inadequate. Elihus claim that God can use
suffering to purify the righteous is closer to the mark.
The conclusion at the whirlwind is that God is sovereign
and worthy of worship in whatever He chooses to do.
Job must learn to trust in the goodness and power of
God in adversity by enlarging his concept of God
(Wilkinson and Boa, Talk through the Bible, p. 145).
A Key Chapter in the Book: Job
28
Human Skill in Mining Technology
(28:1-11)
Wisdoms Unsearchability and Value
(28:12-19)
Gods Knowledge of Wisdom
(28:20-27)
Wisdom for Mankind (28:28)
Next Week: The Psalms