He said to mankind, “The fear of the Lord - that is wisdom. And to turn from evil is understanding.” (Job 28:28 CSB) If someone told you a valuable gem was hidden in your backyard and proceeded to tell you exactly where it could be found, wouldn’t you go home...

I will teach you about God’s power. I will not conceal what the Almighty has planned (Job 27:11 CSB). Job continues to be maligned and preached to by his friends. They tell him their thoughts on the ways of God and using God’s own words, at times, inappropriately. In all...

He stretches the northern skies over empty space; he hangs the earth on nothing (Job 26:7 CSB). Job describes God as more powerful and bigger than we can imagine. Our God, who created the earth out of nothing, suspended it in mid-air and told it to stay there with no...

How can a human be justified before God? How can one born of woman be pure? (Job 25:4 CSB) “How can a human be justified before God?” asked Bildad. We can’t. We can’t be righteous before God and we can’t be pure. We see this prophetic thread throughout Job that constantly...

Why does the Almighty not receive times for judgment? Why do those who know him never see his days? (Job 24:1 CSB)   Job longed to see justice; he longed to know that one day all wrongs will be made right. He lived in the hope of Christ to come...

Yet he knows the way I have taken; when he has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold. My feet have followed in his tracks; I have kept to his way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the commands from his lips; I have treasured the...

If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent... (Job 22:23 CSB) This third cycle of speeches from Job’s friends starts the same way, as Eliphaz tells Job he needs to repent and then will be restored. While true if Job sinned,...

Why do the wicked continue to live, growing old and becoming powerful? (Job 21:7 CSB) Not only do bad things happen to good people, but good things happen to bad people. Job’s defense to his friends was that they could not throw out a blanket statement and attach prosperity to godliness...

I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply (Job 20:3 CSB). Zophar couldn’t accept from Job that it was possible that he could be wrong and was more concerned about his reputation than he was about getting to the truth. He set his “flag in...

But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the nd he will stand on the dust (Job 19:25 CSB). In the midst of suffering and confusion, Job declares the bottom line to his existence. Job knew of his Redeemer: Jesus, yet to come! Re-read this verse, commit it to...