Category: <span>Job</span>

The book of Job reads like a transcript of a forensic trial. Job and his friends carried on in a courtroom where Job was the defendant, claiming righteousness even though…

Commentary Job Old Testament

In Job’s concluding monologue of self-defense, the sufferer maintained that he was righteous before God. Job argued that his suffering was not the Almighty’s retribution for some secret sin he…

Commentary Job Old Testament

Job’s friends were unrelenting in their understanding of spiritual retribution and Job was fortified in his position as a righteous sufferer—a category undefined amongst his contemporaries. Job questioned how the…

Commentary Job Old Testament

In Job 15-21, Job’s three friends each approached with a second attempt at cross-examination. After Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar finished their interrogations, Job replied in kind, stating his innocence and…

Commentary Job Old Testament

When Job was cross-examined by Bildad and Zophar, he replied in kind. Bildad’s first cross-examination (Job 8) reveals less patience and restraint than that recently demonstrated by Eliphaz (Job 4-5).…

Commentary Job Old Testament

The book of Job presents Job’s cyclical judicial dialogue with his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. The first go-around is recorded in Job 4-7. Job’s three friends acted as prosecuting…

Commentary Job Old Testament

The book of Job is often considered to be independent among the books of the Old Testament. Nowhere does the author mention the Abrahamic covenant, Moses, the Promised Land or…

Commentary Job Old Testament