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Both narrative books, actual history
Job begins another section – the poetical books
it has a very great message, an answer to the age-old, haunting question, “Why does apparently senseless tragedy strike men?”
The answer given is that senseless suffering arises out of Satan’s continual challenge to the government of God.
the actors themselves are not permitted to know.
Satan try to convince others that self-interest is the only real motive for human behavior.
Satan’s philosophy is that the question
“What’s in it for me?”
anyone who claims that human beings act from
any other motive is simply a religious phony假装
very likely the Pearl Harbor， In World War II
There, in those quiet, obscure, out-of-the way corners of the earth, the
greatest powers on earth were locked in mortal
combat.
became the battleground for the great fight between empires.
like this happened in the story of Job.
Here is a man going about his private affairs, unaware that he has suddenly become the
center of God’s attention.
the battleground for a conflict between God
and Satan
Job is that battleground, and Satan immediately moves in with shock troops.
telegram boy delivers a series
of messages to Job about terrible catastrophes.
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked shall I return; the LORD gives,
and the LORD has taken away; blessed be
the name of the LORD.” {Job 1:21 RSV}
his wife is the one
whose faith succumbs屈服. She turns on him and says,“Are you still holding fast to your integrity? Why don’t you curse God and die?”
Job has to stand
alone, but he is determined to be faithful.
they attempt to answer that same haunting
question, “Why do senseless tragedies afflict men?”
three friends’ answers are all the same: he has
committed some awful sin.
friends’ arguments and their evil
argument that if God is indeed
just, then the righteous are always blessed and the
wicked always suffer;
therefore, if an individual is
suffering, it must be because there is something
wrong in his life.
With bitter sarcasm he replies that their
explanation of his suffering is in error.
he can’t believe in justice any longer
because their arguments that the wicked always
suffer simply are not true.
he is utterly and completely honest.
, he can’t believe in justice any longer
because their arguments that the wicked always
suffer simply are not true.
deepest expressions of the
human heart
Would that there were an umpire between
us,
oh that there were a daysman, a mediator
between us
who might lay his hand upon us both.
(Job 9:32-33)
(Job 14:14 RSV)
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
and he that vouches for me is on high.
{Job 16:19 RSV}
“Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Oh that with an iron pen and lead
they were graven in the rock for ever!”
{Job 19:23-24 RSV}
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
and at last he will stand upon the earth;
and after my skin has been thus destroyed,
then from my flesh \[“in my flesh,” in the
Hebrew\] I shall see God.” (Job 19:25-
26 RSV)
神的道是活泼的，是有功效的，比一切两刃的剑更快，甚至魂与灵，骨节与骨髓，都能刺入、剖开，连心中的思念和主意都能辨明。 并且被造的没有一样在他面前不显然的；原来万物在那与我们有关系的主眼前，都是赤露敞开的。
希伯来书 4:12-13 CUNPSS-神