Opening Up Job
Overview
Why do bad things happen to good people? Can suffering serve any good purpose? Why me? These are real questions that many wrestle with today—and that Job wrestled with thousands of years ago. The book of Job is a historical biography of Job, “a blameless and upright man,” one justified by faith in the sight of God. This commentary traces his spiritual journey through tragic bereavement and illness, and helps us find solutions to these and other questions, showing us that sickness and suffering are not inevitably linked to personal sin.
Top Highlights
“The questions discussed by Job and his friends are similar to the questions many people wrestle with today. Why is it that bad things happen to good people? Why me? Can suffering serve any good purpose?” (Page 18)
“Yet suffering is not always punishment for sins committed. The Bible” (Page 24)
“Satan can, with God’s permission, do harm and cause sorrow and suffering among the human race, but he is not able to destroy the grace of God in the redeemed.” (Page 60)
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this” (Page 91)
“Book of Job is one of three great poetical books of the Old Testament, Psalms and Proverbs being the other two” (Page 21)
- Title: Opening Up Job
- Author: Ian McNaughton
- Series: Opening Up Commentary
- Publisher: Day One
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Job › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:OPENUP18JOB
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:57:12Z