Old Testament
Job - Questions Raised












Q U E S T I O N S   R A I S E D
I N   J O B' S   D I S C O U R S E S


Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
1.
Shall we not receive in this life, as it comes, both good and evil? (vs.10)
Chapter 3 2.
Why do men rejoice at another's birth, seeing that all are born to suffer evil? (vs.1-19)
  3.
Or, why is light given to men in misery whose way is hidden from him? (vs.20-26)
Chapter 6 4.
What man complains in times of plenty? (vs.5)
  5.
In what should man hope in times of trouble when God cannot seem to be found? (vs.11)
  6.
Why do the righteous suffer when there is no apparent sin? (vs.24)
  7.
Cannot the righteous discern hidden sin when his heart is honest with God? (vs.30)
Chapter 7 8.
What is man to God that He would elevate his consciousness toward Him and then leave him when needed the most? (vs.17-21)
Chapter 9 9.
How can man be just with God? (vs.1)
Chapter 10 10.
Does God take pleasure in oppressing the righteous, or despising a vessel made for honor? (vs.3)
  11.
Is God like man that He has to search out man's sin before pardoning him? (vs.4-6)
  12.
Why is man born of woman if only to suffer all his days? (vs.18-22)
Chapter 12 13.
Who is man that he is any different from all of nature that he alone should escape the evil that he is responsible for introducing into all creation? (vs.7-10)
Chapter 13 14.
Who will plead man's case before God? (vs.19)
Chapter 14 15.
Will man live again after death? (vs.14)
  16.
Is the fate of our posterity known to us beyond death's door? (vs.21)
Chapter 16 17.
Is there not one who will come to man in his broken condition, not to condemn him, but to plead his cause before God? (vs.21)
Chapter 17 18.
Will the righteous man die with unfulfilled hope? And if so, what purpose then his life? (vs.15-16)
Chapter 19 19.
Why do all men, including family and friends, forsake a man who has lost his position, power, prestige, and possessions in this life? (vs.7,17-19)
Chapter 21 20.
Why are the wicked and their posterity allowed to prosper, going to the grave thumbing their nose at God, without receiving apparent recompense for their injustices? (vs.7-15)
  21.
Who is wiser than God to instruct Him? (vs.22)

Q U E S T I O N   T O   P O N D E R:
What is the difference between:

(1)  A Faith Based upon Religious Principles, or One's Own Faith, and

(2)  A Faith Based upon God?

Chapter 23 22.
Is man independently just enough to argue his case of perceived innocence in a matter before God? (vs.3-4,7)
  23.
Is God bound to answer man in his plea of innocence? (vs.5-6)
  24.
What action, if any, can man do to break the barriers that separate man from God? (vs.8-9)
  25.
Are God's decisions irreversible, or, are they always conditional, thus making it possible for them to change? (vs.13-17)
Chapter 24 26.
Why do men who believe in the existence of God continue to do evil without considering there will come a day of judgment upon them? (vs.1-11)
  27.
Why is God not moved against the wicked upon hearing the cry of the innocent? (vs.12-25)
Chapter 26 28.
How can man know the full greatness of God beyond the limitations of His natural order? (vs.5-14)
Chapter 27 29.
How presumptuous is man to use the very breath given him by God to formulate and breathe words derogatory of Him? (vs.1-4; James 3:9)
  30.
What does it profit a man should he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? (vs.8; Mt.16:26)
  31.
Does God hear and answer the distressed cry of the wicked? (vs.9-13)
Chapter 28 32.
What is the hidden avenue to God unseen by the best natural eye? (vs.7-8)
Chapter 29 33.
Why is it that some men's latter days are filled with misery and seemingly absent of God when his former were rich in rewards, honor, and opportunity for service to mankind?
  34.
Why does God visit such calamities upon a man who has been faithful and obedient to Him in service all his life?*
Chapter 30 35.
Why do those once helped by a man turn on him also in his own hour of trouble? (vs.1-15)
  36.
Why does God cast a man down who has helped others up all his life?
Chapter 31 37.
If God marks a man's steps and sees there is no hidden sin, and his service to man has been just, why does calamity fall upon him and not the wicked? (vs.3-4,33)
Chapter 40 38.
What could man possibly say in his own defense when called into account by God? (vs.3-5)
Chapter 42 39.
What man who has contended with God about his case has not done so out of his own ignorance? (vs.1-6)
Q U E S T I O N   T O   P O N D E R:
If the end result is the same -- our inability to sometimes comprehend or perceive God -- what is the difference if:

(1)  God is Sometimes Silent, or

(2)  Man is Sometimes Blind or Deaf?

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