Job — Book Overview
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a soft age, an age that has forgotten what it means to be tested. Our therapeutic culture treats all suffering as an anomaly, a problem to be managed, medicated, or explained away. The biblical man, the man who fears God, asks a different question entirely. We come now to the third and final round of speeches from Job's friends, and it is here that the gloves truly come off. Eliphaz the Temanite, who began this whole miserable business of comfort with a veneer of sagacity and spiritual experience, now drops all pretense and launches a full-frontal assault on Job's character. We live in an age that has a very thin, therapeutic view of restoration. When trials come, our prayers are often aimed at a simple return to the way things were. We want the pain to stop, the bank account to be refilled, the diagnosis to be reversed, so that we can get back to our regularly scheduled lives.
This overview explores the whole book. Read the explanations sampled in this summary: