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With Friends Like This ...
Read Job 4:1-11
With Friends Like This
Here he sits, scraping his sores with broken pieces of trashed cups and pots.
Do you feel like your alone in your time of trial?
Do you feel as though nobody could possibly be able to identify with you ....?
Job’s 3 friends have been with him for seven days and seven nights - the traditional period of mourning for the dead.
For this entire time, nobody has said a word.
One is rendered speechless in the face of such unimaginable suffering as they see right before them.
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Finally, in chapter 3, Job opens his mouth to break the long silence.
He cried out with a curse and a lament - that’s chapter 3.
He curses the day he was born AND the night he was conceived.
Then he laments.
Laments this life of his - and its unrelenting pain.
We left Job, last week, crying out to God.
He is on the outside of the walls of the city he once was the leader of.
On the outskirts of the city sitting - in the garbage dump, on a pile of ashes, smoke of burning garbage, wafting into the air all around him - the stench of everyone’s refuse, surrounding him.
The greatest man in his world, now on the same level as a peasant leper, ostracized from society, forced outside of the city to eke out an existence in the refuse of what everyone else throws away ......
Job has spewed his heart.
“Curse the day I was born”!
“Curse the day I died!” Friends have been with him for a week already - have been silent.
Now after hearing Job’s emotions out loud - they feel like they have to respond.
Here he sits, scraping his sores with broken pieces of trashed cups and pots.
Do you feel like your alone in your time of trial?
Do you feel as though nobody could possibly be able to identify with you ....?
The text of Job between chapters 4 and 27, is all speeches between Job and his friends.
Job has three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar.
And just a matter of trivia here: Bildad just happens to be the shortest person in the entire BIble.
refers to him as Bildad the Shuhite.
There are three cycles of speeches.
Eliphaz speaks and Job replies; Bildad speaks and Job responds; Zophar speaks and Job responds.
There is a second cycle like that and then a third, shorter one.
Job’s 3 friends have been with him for seven days and seven nights - the traditional period of mourning for the dead.
For this entire time, nobody has said a word.
One is rendered speechless in the face of such unimaginable suffering as they see right before them.
Chapter 4 begins with the first speech.
It is Eliphaz. .
E - goes first, probably because he is the oldest of the friends.
He is a grey headed man, according to chapter 15:9-10, older than Job's father.
He is the most profound, the gentlest - at least at the beginning.
He seems to be the all around nicest friend.
And he is someone who cares about God - recognizes that God is a HOLY GOD - and wants to make sure everyone understands the holiness of God.
((((In many ways, he is like us here.
See if you get what I mean as we explore his speech)))).
Finally, in chapter 3, Job opens his mouth to break the long silence.
He cried out with a curse and a lament - that’s chapter 3.
He curses the day he was born AND the night he was conceived.
Then he laments.
Laments this life of his - and its unrelenting pain.
Chapters 4-5, make up the speech of Eliphaz
Job has spewed his heart.
“Curse the day I was born”!
“Curse the day I was conceived!”
Friends have come to find him - have been with him for a week already - have been silent.
Now after hearing Job’s emotions out loud - they feel like they have to respond.
6-7 Job's response.
The text of Job between chapters 4 and 27, is all speeches between Job and his friends.
Job has three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar.
And just a matter of trivia here: Bildad just happens to be the shortest person in the entire BIble.
Eliphaz begins gently - see his opening words in v. 2, “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
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