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To Preserve a Man from the Pit: God’s Mercy in Revelation Job 33:1-18   Now, a young man, Elihu, possibly the...

  A transparent examination of motives, purpose and conscience gives rise to Job’s next defense of his integrity...

“Having given an account of his conduct concerning his accountability to the second table of the commandments, Job now looks at his awareness of the accountability set forth in the first table.”

  Job claims honesty in all his dealings with others (31:5-8). Job now begins a series of possible conditions...

    Here in the finale of Job’s last appeal for a hearing with God, he lays out his case that he is willing...

Job mocks the repetitive irrelevance of the presentations of his comforters. He particularly derides the speech of Bildad for his restatement of the obvious that God is more powerful than his creatures. With seething sarcasm, Job quips, “How you have helped him who has no power!” Just telling me that God is stronger than I is neither enlightening nor particularly insightful in expanding our understanding of the ways of God with his creatures.

*Editor's Note: This is the ninth installment in a 9-part series on the book of Job by Dr. Tom J. Nettles. As more...

*Editor's Note: This is the eighth installment in a 9-part series on the book of Job by Dr. Tom J. Nettles. As more...