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Job 7 Verses 1 to 21 Why Me Lord July 31, 2022
Class Presentation Notes AA
Background Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Psalm 4:8, Matthew 8:24-26
Main Idea: You will never be able to deal with all the demands life throws your way without having the strength of Christ in your life.
Study Aim: to understand that sometimes God will calm the storms, but most often He calms the hearts of those in the storm.
Create Interest:
· A true friend is someone who really knows you—faults and all—and still loves you.
Sadly, some of us forget this when problems arise in a friend’s life.
In Job’s case, his so-called friends were certainly not acting like true friends.
Think of all the helpful things they could have done instead of accusing and trying to convict him of unconfessed sin in his life.
· Job’s friends could have offered kind, caring words, comforting words, pity, and understanding.
They could have listened more and talked less.
They could have shown tenderness over Job’s horrible suffering and loss.
They could have offered practical, material aid—perhaps loans, gifts of livestock and grain, and the like.
Or, they could have sought out medicine and the best doctors of the day.
· More important than all these things, they could have prayed with Job and wept for God’s mercy despite any faults Job may have had.
o Instead, they offered only empty words, words that were hurtful, judgmental, and untrue.
o True friends do more than talk.
First, they listen and seek to understand.
Afterward, they offer good, dependable help whenever and however they can.
· God’s Word says a great deal about true friendship and about how believers are to love and care for one another:[1]
o Romans 15:1 (NASB)
1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.
o 1 John 2:10 (NASB)
10 The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
Lesson in Historical Context:
· Job, verses 6:14-30, expressed bitter disappointment in Eliphaz, for his friend was failing to be a true ally.
Instead of comforting Job, he had falsely accused him—even though Job had done no wrong.
What Job needed was compassion and wise counsel; but his friend had offered only bad advice, rebuke, and condemnation.
Naturally, Job felt terribly let down, even forsaken.
As a result, he made seven charges against his friends concerning their lack of true friendship.
· In the second part of this speech, our lesson focus today, Job leaves off addressing the comforters and speaks directly to God.
After lamenting his fate, Job details his own physical agony and bemoans the hard lot of humanity in general.
He complains bitterly to God for treating him so harshly, and he reminds God that he will soon die.
Then he seeks to motivate God to ease his sufferings for the few days he has left before dying.
He reasons that anything that he might have done could not have harmed God and that after his death God will seek him eagerly, but not be able to find him.
That Job speaks realistically about his pains here, in contrast to the unrealistic wish never to have been born that he uttered in his curse-lament (ch.
3), means that he is beginning to cope with his real situation.
He is reaching beyond his despair to find reconciliation with God.
This section is arranged in four subsections alternating between a lament and a petition.[2]
Bible Study:
Job 7:1-2 (NASB)
1 "Is not man forced to labor on earth, And are not his days like the days of a hired man?
2 "As a slave who pants for the shade, And as a hired man who eagerly waits for his wages,
· Job laments the hard plight of all human beings, both slave and free.
In return for his toil the worker receives only a meager reward, a small wage or a brief time of relaxation.
Job considers that his fate is comparable to the hardship bore by one who spends his strength in working for another person.
· This analogy emphasizes the weakness and servitude of human beings in general.
Three nouns depict the relationship of a laborer to his master.
term of service.
o The first noun, ṣāḇāʾ, refers to forced service.
It was primarily used for military service, but it could also refer to conscripted labor as here.
o The second term, śāḵîr could also refer to those hired for military purposes (Jer.
46:21; cf.
Isa.
7:20), though it is usually used of domestic workers (e.g., Exod.
12:45; Lev.
25:53).
These workers were usually very poor (Lev.
25:40) and often hired themselves out one day at a time for a meager wage that scarcely provided daily food for their families.
In the morning they would gather with other laborers at the marketplace and wait patiently to be hired for the day (cf.
Matt.
20:1–12).
Because of their poverty it was imperative that they be paid at the end of the day so that they could buy food for the evening meal (Lev.
19:13; Deut.
24:14–15; cf.
Matt.
20:8).
o The third term is ʿeḇeḏ.
It has a broad range of reference, including anyone who works for or serves another, from slaves (Deut.
15:15).
The slave was completely bound to his master’s will.
§ The reward of the hired worker differs markedly from that of the slave.
The former bears the heat of the day in anticipation of his wages, thinking of the joy he will receive from the morsel he will be able to buy and share with his family.
In contrast, the slave endures the burning heat for his master.
Beneath the hot sun he gasps (šāʾap̄) for the shade, the coolness of the long shadows of the late afternoon.
§ In the Palestinian hill country, the heat of a long summer day is made bearable by the cool, refreshing breeze that one can usually feel in the shade during the afternoon.
Since the slave receives no wage, his mind is absorbed with finding moments of relaxation and a little relief like that offered by the shade of a tree.[3]
· With these comparisons the author moves beyond the core issue of the suffering of the righteous to the issue of widespread human misery.
Job 7:3-5 (NASB)
3 So am I allotted months of vanity, And nights of trouble are appointed me.
4 "When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?'
But the night continues, And I am continually tossing until dawn.
5 "My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt, My skin hardens and runs.
· Vs. 3: The sentence begun in v. 2 is completed in v. 3. Job grumbled that his lot was “months of futility” and “nights of misery.”
The term “misery” occurs five times before this in Job (3:10; 4:8; 5:6, 7, 26).
This reference to “months” provides one of the few clues to the time frame of Job’s ordeal.
About all one can say is that the trial lasted more than one month and probably less than a year, otherwise “year” would have been in a verse such as this.[4]
· Vs. 4-5: Instead of being able to rest in the shade at the end of the day, his nightswere miserable.
(Misery translates ‘āmāl, “trouble”; cf.
Job 3:10; 4:8; 5:6–7.)
His nights were long as he tossed and turned in pain.
Who could possibly sleep with his body covered with worms (probably eating his dead flesh) and dirty scabs?
(lit., “clods of dust”) The scabs on his skinhardened and cracked; his sores were festered with pus.[5]
Thoughts to clarify before moving on:
· Turning the general analogy to his specific circumstances, Job slips into first-person references.
If the servant and hired man of verses 1 and 2 have “hard service,” Job exceeds them all.
They wait for the evening shade or the paycheck at the end of the workday, while Job has endured months of futilitywith no conclusion in sight.
His nights of misery drag restlessly on, while thoughts that the whole experience must be repeated again in the morning plague him.
Along with his pain and hopelessness, Job must also endure a failing body clothed with worms and scabs, covered with broken and festering skin.
Job 7:6-10 (NASB)
6 "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And come to an end without hope.
7 "Remember that my life is but breath; My eye will not again see good.
8 "The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer; Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
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