Understanding Our Times

Northwest Bible Church – Job 20-23 – Book of Job – Alan Conner
Job 20-23
Understanding our Times

Intro

A. ZOPHAR (Job 20).

1. The prosperity of the wicked is short (Job 20:1-11).

2. Sin and its retribution (Job 20:12-22).

3. God’s wrath on the sinner (Job 20:23-29).

B. JOB’S RESPONSE (Job 21).

1. The wicked prosper in every way and mock God (Job 21:1-16).

2. The rarity of their troubles being severe (Job 21:17-26).

3. The folly of the counsel of his friends (Job 21:27-34).

C. ElLIPHAZ (ch. 22).

1. Job’s wickedness asserted (Job 22:1-11).

2. Warnings to the wicked (Job 22:12-20).

3. Appeal to Job to repent (Job 22:21-30).

D. JOB’S RESPONSE (Job23-24).

1. Job’s desire to set his case before God (Job 23:1-7).

2. Job laments his inability to find God but trusts in God’s knowledge and decrees (Job 23:8-17).

a. Job laments that God is hiding from him (Job 23:8-10).

b. Job has not departed from God’s word (Job 23:11-12).

c. God’s sovereign decrees rule Job’s life (Job 23:13-17).

LORD’S SUPPER