Job’s 3rd response to Zophar

There are 5 paragraphs which break this speech up.

v. 1-6

Job is polite in referring to Zophar, since Zophar was so eloquent in the previous chapter.

v. 4 If I were complaining to man then I would be really scared.

v. 7-15

Job makes the case, again, that wicked people live peaceful lives of prosperity until the day that they are taken from us.

They think that they don’t need God and that is how they act.

v. 16-21

Their end will be disastrous as they see the wrath of God.

Bear in mind that in Job’s previous speech (Ch. 19) he spoke of the resurrection and seeing God.

v. 22-26

The prosperous are taken away in their full strength whereas some die slowly in bitterness.

v.27-34

I know you think I’m a sinner, but I won’t be going where the wicked go.

Y’all don’t know what you’re talking about

Zophar’s second response to Job.
V. 3 You rebuked me and I have to respond.

• I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

V. 5 Zophar quotes a proverb:

• I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
• Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. (Psalms 37:35-36)

V. 6 A similar passage is used to describe the fall of Lucifer.

• How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
• For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
• I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
• Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15)
• V. 9 Zophar repeats something that job already said.

• The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

V. 11-13 Zophar tells Job that he is full of sin and wickedness.
V. 14-16 but has become like poison within him.
V. 17 As such he will not see any good thing.
V. 18-20 Everything he has stolen he will restore and because of his oppression of the poor he will not be able to enjoy anything that he stole.
V. 21 He will not have anything to give so he won’t have any friends.

• There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. (Ecclesiastes 5:13-14)

V. 22 Whatever you have will be taken away.
V. 23 Even while you are eating God will rain his fury on you.
V. 24 You can flee from the sword and be shot by an arrow.
V. 25 You will see the shaft of the arrow sticking out of your belly.
V. 26-27 Everything is going to go wrong that can go wrong.
V. 28 All your wealth will be lost.
V. 29 Isn’t this what we see, Job?

Job channels Paul’s understanding of the rapture and the glorified body which we will receive.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

He figured it out somehow.

Romans 1:18-23

Bildad’s 2nd response to Job.

Bildad only addresses Job for the first 3 verses.

Starting in v. 4 he begins to talk about Job to his friends.
This is the last time Bildad refers to job personally.

He describes Job has having become like a wild animal now.

v. 5 &  6 his light shall be put out – he is in darkness.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! (Matthew 6:22-23)

v. 7 – 10 his own mouth opened a trap that he walked into.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. (Ecclesiastes 9:12)

v. 11 -14 he is afraid, his strength is gone, he is terrified of the judgment.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrews 10:24-27)

v. 15 – 16 brimstone will burn up his roots and his branches.

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: (Deuteronomy 29:23)

v. 17 he will be forgotten about.

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. (Ecclesiastes 9:15-16)

v. 18 he will be in darkness. (outer darkness?).

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matthew 8:12)

v. 19 no children.

v. 20 people will be astonished at his fall.

v. 21 This is what happens to people who don’t know God.