3 - Why? (Job 2:11 - 3:26)

Job loses his way (of wisdom) because he seeks to make sense of his suffering with the logic of this world.

1. Job’s Counselors (2:11-13)

   1. Job’s Trials Continue

   2. A Funeral for the Living (vv. 12-13; cf. 1 Samuel 31:13)

2. Preferring Death to Life (3:1-26)

   1. The Despondency of Job (3:1-10)

   2. Accusation Without Cursing (3:1-10)

   3. Despising the Day He Was Born (3:11-19)

   4. To Die is Gain? (3:20-22; cf. Philippians 1:21-26)

   5. Finding Fault with God (3:23-26)

2 - Job’s Wisdom Tested (Job 1:6 - 2:10)

Job serves as a demonstration that, by grace, God is able to preserve sinful man against the attacks of the devil, something righteous Adam could not do on his own.

1. The Accuser & the Accused (1:6-22)

   1. The Heavenly Assembly (v. 6-12)

   2. Job’s Trial & Response (vv. 13-22)

2. The Accuser Returns (2:1-6)

   1. The (Next) Heavenly Assembly (vv. 1-6)

   2. Job’s Patient Wisdom (vv. 7-10)

1 - Who Was Job? (Job 1:1-5)

Job was a real man who lived sometime around the time of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) who, though not sinless, sincerely sought after God, understanding his need for a Redeemer

1. Would the Real Job Please Stand Up

   1. What do you think of when you think of Job?

   2. Theodicy (the Problem of Evil / Suffering)

   3. Type of Christ

2. Background

   1. Wisdom Literature (Proverbs 1:7; Ecclesiastes 12:13)

   2. Historical Context

   3. Recording

3. How it All Began

   1. Blameless and Upright (v. 1-3; cf. Genesis 1:28)

   2. Sinful (v. 4-5)

   3. A Picture of Christ First Petition and the First Commandment