Job: The Hardest Lesson

Job is going about his private affairs, unaware that he has suddenly become the center of God's attention. He has become the battleground for a conflict between God and Satan in which God is planning to pull the rug out from under Satan.

Bible Studies in the Book of Job

Let God be God

The Test	V	Job 1
The Pressure of Pain	V	Job 2
Is It Better to Die?	V	Job 3-7
The Folly of Platitudes	V	Job 8-13
Help from On High	V	Job 13 - 19
Why doesn't God Intervene?	V	Job 20 - 26
The Wrong of Self-Defense	V	Job 27-31
Youth answers Age	V	Job 32 - 33
Your God is Too Small	V	Job 34-37
The God of Nature	V	Job 38-39
The Nature of God	V	Job 40 - 41
The New Beginning	V	Job 42
Lessons from Job	V	Job 1 - 42
Christmas at Uz	V	Job 42

Overview the Book of Job from Adventuring

The gripping and challenging book of Job is perhaps one of the most fascinating books of the Old Testament, and it begins a new division in the scriptures. The books from Genesis to Esther are all narrative books, and are vitally meaningful to us as living parables, as types worked out in actual history by which we can see what is going on in our own lives.

Job begins another section -- the poetical books of the Bible -- which also includes Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and the little book of Lamentations, tucked in behind Jeremiah. Job is a great poem. Some have said that it is perhaps even the greatest poem in all literature. Perhaps nothing that Shakespeare has written exceeds this book in beauty of expression. It is admired everywhere as one of the most beautiful writings that man has ever known. But it is more than an expressive, dramatic writing; it has a very great message, as we shall see.

It is a drama, an epic drama much like The Iliad and The Odyssey, the poems by Homer from the Greek world. But the book of Job is also history. Job was an actual, living person and these events actually took place, but God recounts them for us in this beautiful style so that we might have an answer to the age-old, haunting question, "Why does apparently senseless tragedy strike men?" Any time you get into difficulties it is well to turn to the book of Job. Here is a man who experienced an agony of human despair and desolation of spirit which accompanied the apparently meaningless, senseless tragedies that came into his life.