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Job
CHAPTER 42
Job's answer now is repentance. He has no more questions. It is simply enough that he has the fellowship of God.
Job makes a confession of his sin in verse 3. His sin is of casting a cloud of darkness upon God's integrity by questioning the way God has allowed him to suffer.
Notice that Job does not ask for healing; he does not ask for anything. Friends, to know the fellowship of God is ENOUGH!
7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
God accepted Job's confession of sin (verse 9), and exalted Job above his "friends."
Eliphaz, being the eldest is given a reproof from God. Notice that God tells him that he and his friends have not spoken rightly about God. They have tried to teach a works-salvation and a prosperity gospel. Friends, God says those things are NOT TRUE!
Then God commands the four "friends" of Job to offer sacrifices to Him, and then get Job to pray for them. This proves that what they have said was SIN, and requires confession and repentance. It also proves that Job, as he had contended, was indeed justified with God through simple daily confession and repentance.
10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
Job had not asked for healing; but God gave it. Job had not asked for possessions; but God gave them. You see, God KNOWS what is best for us. We shouldn't question the fact that suffering is part of living on this earth. God is in control ALL the time; and He knows what is best for us ALL the time. He also knows how to use the circumstances of life to strengthen us and help us to grow.
Notice that this same wife produced TEN more children (verse 13).
Job, being a just and righteous man, saw to it that his daughters received an equal portion of the inheritance (verse 15). This action preceeded the law of inheritance that was handed down by Moses later. Job was indeed a very WISE man.
I hope that this book has shown you that though we sin by questioning God; if we really love Him, and try to obey Him - we are JUSTIFIED by grace through faith. Works are produced by the initiative of God's Holy Spirit dwelling in us, but they are an expression of salvation and not a means by which salvation is obtained.
I hope also that you have found in the study of this book that God is always watching over His people, and that He is always in control of every situation.
May God bless you as you continue to study in His Holy Word. Please continue in Bible Study with us.
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:" (2Peter 2:9)
Someone has asked, "Why didn't God take away Job's wife, because she was unjust?" Well, you see, God would have had to give Job back DOUBLE; and NO MAN needs two wives! (Now that's a "cutie." It's ok to laugh.)