| My Thoughts on Job |
| Written by Donald Hester |
| Tuesday, 16 June 2009 19:18 |
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This is a continuation of my ongoing report. I recently decided to listen to the Bible in an effort to gain a closer relationship with God. I purposefully listen not with the intent to study. I have a hard time reading the Bible I just start looking things up and I don't make much progress. I am listening to the Bible Experience (http://www.inspiredby.com/) which is a dramatized NIV version with many famous African American leaders, singers, actors and artists. (Even Samuel L. Jackson) As I listen through the Bible, hopefully I will make it all the way through, I will post notes and thoughts I have.
The book starts off with a different feeling than it has at the end. The beginning seems to remind me Gilgamesh. When it gets into the discourses with his friends reminds me more of the style of Psalms or Proverbs.
Where is the land of Uz? It is East of the writer.
Is this is a true story or an metaphorical story or parable?
A number of people groups are mentioned who came and stole and killed. Who were those groups and where were they from?
Job shaved his head. Who used this custom? In we know we can determine the culture of Job.
His wife recommended he curse God and die. What a great supporter!
The Good God and the Evil Devil sort of remind me of Zoroaster's theology. However, Zoroaster would have been dated after Abraham. I guess it depends on the dating of this book.
Job friends had a concept they kept arguing. Their point was that if you do good, good should follow and if you do bad than bad should follow. Thus if bad things are happening to Job then he must have done something bad. I think this was also a point of Zoroastrianism. Which is funny that Job is a counter point to the Zoroastrian theology. Also in Zoroastrianism the good and bad Gods were equal in power. Another counterpoint in Job is that God and the devil are not equal. In Job the Devil starts off in the book but by the end of the book he is absent.
You can still hear the arguments of the Jobs so called friends from people today.
What are the Cohorts of Rehab? Would this help date the book.
Chapter 10 there is a call out for a savior
Is God teaching Job? Us? Satan? Or all of us a lesson?
Ch 16 My advocate is on high. Is this messianic? Or ch 19 I know that my redeemer lives?
Bronze tip arrow mentioned. May help in dating.
Ch 27 The phrase 'breath of God in his nostrils,' reminds me of Adam.
Good Question asked by Job. Where is wisdom and understanding. You can't find it or buy it.
God alone knows Wisdom. The fear of the Lord is wisdom (CH28)
God talks many ways, even dreams. Sickness and troubles are another way God talks to us.
A number of scientific statements are made.
Stretching out the heavens, sound like the expanding universe
The ocean currents
Water cycle
Leviathan
Constellations Mentioned
Behemoth
Water erodes stone
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