From Job 32-34 In a previous post Job made his summary defense and final appeal. He has nothing more to say. In today’s post another enters the conversation. His name is Elihu. I like to think [ Read More … ]
From Job 29-31 In today’s passage Job speaks about his life before. He was blessed by the LORD in a number of ways. Read more about the ways in which he was blessed by the [ Read More … ]
From Job 24-28 Chapter 28 of Job is the centre of the book. His suffering has led him to seek wisdom. He describes what it is like to search it out. He speaks about its value. In [ Read More … ]
From Job 21-23 In today’s reading Job’s own suffering has caused him to look around and notice the many injustices and the suffering in the world. Jesus likewise recognizes injustice in the world. This post [ Read More … ]
From Job 17-20 At the start of todays reading Job again calls attention to his suffering and his friends lack of support. He believes the upright and the innocent will take notice of this injustice. [ Read More … ]
From Job 14-16 In his misery and ‘comfort’ Job looks forward to and anticipates the resurrection from the dead. Today’s passage combines an Old Testament prophecy of resurrection with forgiveness of sins. If you were [ Read More … ]
From Job 11-13 In today’s passage Zophar speaks to Job. He tries to tell him he deserves worse than he has received and he should repent. When we look at the gospel, we see repentance [ Read More … ]
This is the last post of a series that discusses explanatory functions. See the intro and sola scriptura for the first two. What if a particular text could be interpreted several ways. That is having [ Read More … ]
From Job 8-10 Job laments his current situation. He believes he is innocent and his suffering is unjust. But he recognises that even were he to present his case against the LORD, the LORD would [ Read More … ]
Hopefully from my last post you can see each successive explanatory function is an increasingly better fit with the original series of numbers. Unfortunately, once a group emerges that produces a new explanatory formula they become [ Read More … ]