Sermon on Job
Sermon on Job 1:1-22
As we come to the book of Job, we actually enter into a new section of the Old Testament. As you know, the Old Testament is divided into different divisions.
Sermon on Job 2:1-13
Another day and again the sons of God are presenting themselves before Jehovah, and Satan is coming with them to present himself before the LORD (Job 2:1).
Sermon on Job 3:1-26
And finally Job spoke up. Job begins to curse the day of his birth.
Job opened his mouth, and he cursed his day (Job 3:1).
Sermon on Job 4:1-21
So Job has made his complaint, and so Eliphaz, his friend who came to comfort him, he said,
Sermon on Job 5:1-27
If there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will thou turn? (Job 5:1)
Sermon on Job 6:1-9
So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! (Job 6:1-2)
Sermon on Job 7:1-21
Is there not an appointed time to man upon the earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow (Job 7:1-2),
Sermon on Job 8:1-22
How long will you speak these things? how long will your words of your mouth be like a [big, bag of] wind? Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice? If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression (Job 8:2-4);
Sermon on Job 9:1-35
What? That God is fair. That God is just. Now that is something that we need to all know. That is true. God is righteous. God is just. Though the justice of God is often challenged. One of the first challenges that Satan made even to Eve was in the fairness of God.
Sermon on Job 10:1-22
He goes right back into his misery. He looks for the answer, but it isn't there; it isn't to be found. And so I return back to my weariness of life.
Sermon on Job 11:1-20
And in chapter 11 we hear from Job's third friend, old Zophar, and he gets his two cents worth in. Now for you that weren't here last Sunday night, we remember that the sons of God were presenting themselves to God and Satan came with them.
Sermon on Job 12:1-25
So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2).
Sermon on Job 13:1-28
Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason with God (Job 13:1-3).
Sermon on Job 14:1-22
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, he's full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow [or the shadow on the sundial], and continues not (Job 14:1-2)
Sermon on Job 15:1-35
Now at this point, Eliphaz, who was the first friend of Job's to speak, speaks for the second time. And he claims that he is older than Job, more experienced than Job, and thus Job ought to listen to him.
Sermon on Job 16:1-22
So Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all. Shall empty words (Job 16:1)
Sermon on Job 17:1-16
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? (Job 17:1-3)
Sermon on Job 18:1-21
Then answered Bildad (Job 18:1),
Sermon on Job 19:1-29
Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with your words? These ten times you have reproached me: and you're not ashamed that you made yourself like a stranger to me.
Sermon on Job 20:1-29
So Zophar, the third of the speakers, gives his second discourse. And again, he was the guy that was dealing with traditions earlier, and with wisdom and all, so he said to Job,
Sermon on Job 21:1-34
Zophar has just concluded in chapter 20 his second speech in which, again, he sort of just gives some of the traditions and quotes some of the proverbs that are common, and sort of reiterating some of his accusations against Job
Sermon on Job 22:1-30
So Eliphaz takes up the argument now. And the same old story: he accuses Job of being wicked and he actually makes many bad accusations. He said,
Sermon on Job 23:1-17
And so Job answers him and he says, Every day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning (Job 23:1-2).
Sermon on Job 24:1-25
Now, why, seeing the times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Sermon on Job 25:1-6
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said [concerning God],
Sermon on Job 26:1-14
So Job answers now this little saying of Bildad. It's his third and final answer to Job, and it's really nothing.
Sermon on Job 27:1-23
Job continued his answer and he said, As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul; All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Sermon on Job 28:1-28
Now, Job said, turning now to a different vein of thought, he said, "Now, there are places where gold is discovered and silver is discovered, and iron and brass, men dig the shafts, they follow the vein of gold and so forth.
Sermon on Job 29:1-25
Moreover Job continued (Job 29:1)
Sermon on Job 30:1-31
But now, chapter 30, he tells of the present condition. And just as glorious as was the past, so depressing is the present
Sermon on Job 31:1-40
Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his last word and Job is still responding,
Sermon on Job 32:1-22
So sitting nearby was a young man whose name was Elihu.
Sermon on Job 33:1-33
Wherefore, Job, [he said,] I pray thee, now hear my speech, hearken to all my words. Behold, I've opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth. My words shall be of uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Sermon on Job 34:1-37
Furthermore Elihu went on then [Job didn't answer], he said, Hear my words, O ye wise men; give ear unto me, that have knowledge. For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat (Job 34:1-3).
Sermon on Job 35:1-16
Elihu continues to speak, he said, Do you think this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's? (Job 35:1-2)
Sermon on Job 36:1-33
Just allow me a little more, and I'm going to show you what I have to speak on God's behalf. I'm going to fetch my knowledge from far off, I'm going to ascribe righteousness to my Maker. For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee (Job 36:2-4)
Sermon on Job 37:1-24
At this also my heart trembled, and is moved out of his place.
Sermon on Job 38:1-41
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Sermon on Job 39:1-30
Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? can you mark when the hinds calve? Can you number the months that they fulfil? [Do you know how long their pregnancies are?] or do you know the time when they bring forth?
Sermon on Job 40:1-24
Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? (Job 40:1-2)
Sermon on Job 41:1-34
And then in the next chapter God speaks of the leviathan.
Sermon on Job 42:1-17
Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from thee (Job 42:1-2).