Job’s Lament

Northwest Bible Church – Oct. 16, 2022 – Book of Job – Alan Conner
Job 3-5
Job’s Lament

Intro

A. JOB’S LAMENT (3:1-26).

1. Let the day and night perish that gave me life (3:1-10).

2. Why did I not die at birth (3:11-19)?

3. Why do sufferers still live (3:20-26)?

B. OBSERVATIONS.

1. Job does not wrestle with the question of WHO but WHY!

2. Job does not consider SUICIDE.

C. ELIPHAZ’S RESPONSE (chs. 4-5).

1. Practice what you preach (4:1-6).

2. The law of retribution (4:7-21).

a. 4:7-11 – Principle: those who sow trouble harvest it. RETRIBUTION.

b. 4:10-11 proof from nature –

c. 4:12-21 proof from revelation.

3. God’s faithfulness to deliver His own from sorrow (5:1-26).

a. 5:1-7 God does not listen to the prayers of fools.

b. 5:8-16 Counsel: seek God (v. 8).

c. 5:17-27 Blessed is the man God reproves.

D. FINAL OBSERVATONS

1. Don’t belittle suffering.

2. Job is a type of Christ as the INNOCENT SUFFERER.