Biblical Studies: Job
Overview
In this collection, Sam Storms draws upon 38 years of experience as a professor, a pastor, and an author to provide accessible and insightful commentaries, as well as general Bible reading tips. For every book of the Bible covered here, he includes detailed introductions, personal commentaries, and suggestions for further reading; for Psalms, Corinthians, and Revelations, he also includes guides for daily devotions and meditations. Through this series of hundreds of articles, Storms helps readers get more out of the Bible by giving interpretive clues and discussing controversial issues such as divorce and remarriage, infant deaths, the power of demons, and more. This volume on the book of Job contains commentary and insights into every chapter of the book of Job.
Top Highlights
“‘The book of Job,’ wrote Heinrich Heine, ‘is the Song of Songs of skepticism, and in it terrifying serpents hiss their eternal question: Why?’ Why do we ask ‘why’ upon reading the book of Job? Simply because what happened to Job and what happens to so many of us seems so utterly inconsistent with what we know to be true of God. If God is good and great, as we believe He is, how can He stand idly by and permit a righteous man like Job to suffer so horribly? This is a book that chronicles the human response when one’s experience conflicts with one’s expectations.” (Job 1)
“Yellow Pages—and produced the same stunning effect on Job. What he said was not nearly so important as the mere fact of his appearance. God spectacularly answered Job’s biggest question: Is anybody out there? Once Job caught sight of the unseen world, all his urgent questions faded away’ (Yancey, 240).” (Job 38–42)
“Simply put, life is not fair, Injustice often seems to triumph. Good people suffer indescribable pain and bad people prosper with baffling regularity. No, I don’t know why, and as best I can tell, no one else knows either. But whenever such issues arise, people invariably turn to the book of Job.” (Job 1)
“It isn’t God who appears on the witness stand to undergo cross-examination in order to make sense of what has occurred. It is Job, of all people, who is cross-examined. More than 70 times God asks Job an unanswerable question.” (Job 38–42)
“may the name of the Lord be praised’ or ‘blessed be the name of the Lord’” (Job 1:20–22)
- Title: Job
- Author: Sam Storms
- Series: Biblical Studies
- Publisher: Sam Storms
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Job › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:BIBLICALSTUDIES18JOB
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:15:35Z
Sam Storms earned a ThM in historical theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD in intellectual history from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the founder of Enjoying God Ministries, senior pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a former visiting professor of theology at Wheaton College. He has authored over two dozen books and served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.