Job - Sovereignty - BIBLE SUMMARY WITH ART

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 Righteous Job is introduced, God  then grants Satan's request to touch Job's family and possesions, soon Job looses family and possessions and worships God without sin.

 God grants Satan's request to touch Job's health, and Job is covered in painful boils, his wife instructs  Job  to curse God, three friends are introduced.

 Job composes a lament poem that expresses darkness turmoil and anguish and his desire to have never been born.

 Eliphaz  (one of Job's 3 friends) answers Job's in a poem he recites after a nightmare , he reasons that  the innocent don't suffer and that there is no way to know if one is just before God.

 The poem of Eliphaz continues encouraging Job to plea before God, he praises some truths of God's character including God's justice references to Leviticus (wild animals).

  Job responds and clings to his love and fear of a holy God but finds no comfort or help from his friends, as  he is right before God.

 Job recites a poem recognizing the painful futility of  life as a mere breath or short lived cloud formation until return to dust (Genesis 3).

 Bildad responds poetically claiming to know God's ways and implores Job to examine all possibility of  sin for himself and others to determine why this happened.

 Job responds that no one has the right to question God or even stand in his presence, he sees his only hope is to beg for mercy

Job reflects with questions in sorrow of how God is dealing with him, " Why then did You bring me out of the womb? ".

 Zophar responds in an attempt to speak for God and tells Job that if he directs his heart rightly his life would be brighter than noon day.

 Job responds saying the animals, the earth and   nations are all good teachers of God's power and might, God "reveals mysteries from the darkness,  And brings the deep darkness into light".

 Job states that his friends proverbs are not helpful and that he would prefer their silence and them not pestering  him more, incorrectly speaking for God.

 Job sees purpose in how a tree will sprout again and reflects on the covering of his sin (which makes him righteous) yet questions man's purpose. 

Eliphaz reasons that Job is obviously in the wrong to disagree with what all the "wise" agree about Job's situation (God punishing him for sin).

Job responds that his friends are miserable comforters especialy now that his family is gone and his illness is progressing, his friends are his scoffers.

 Job laments that he has become despised by men a byword, he finds no comfort in men and looks forward to the grave.

 Bildad responds and is offended by Job's accusations, and concludes that the wicked get caught in their own snares and get what's coming to them.

 Job responds lamenting his "comforters" he knows that his circumstance is not a result of wickedness, he laments that no one listens to him.

 Zophar is insulted and inwardly agitated and answers that the triumph of the wicked is short, hidden evill eventually finds us all out like snakes venom.

 Job sees that the wicked thrive in this world for the foreseeable future yet  trusts God to bring about ultimate justice, can anyone teach God?

 Eliphaz responds that God is reproving him for his irreverence, and concludes that Job has done evil and that a return to God who put the stars in the sky will result in restoration.

 Job expresses his longing to present his case before God, he values God's word, but God cannot be found, Job fears the presence of God.

 Job sees the lack of justice in this world (exploiting orphans and widows), it appears there is no justice, but trusts God to make all things just.

 Bildad responds and sees that with an almighty God the righteousness of man as unattainable,  man is but a worm.

 Job rebukes Bildad, he recognizes that God put the clouds and stars in the sky and measured the sea, therefore who can speak for God.

Job clings to his righteousness , he affirms his trust in God to justly judge the wicked into the future when they will regret rejecting God.

Job lists the earth's treasures,  God has created a vast planet that hides mysteries but the mysteries of His wisdom are harder to find.

 Job reflects thankfully on his youth and past, he was prominent and ruled justly with mercy to orphans and widows, his steps were bathed in cream.

 He then reflects on his present miserable state where enemies of God mock him, unruly mobs rule (not justice) and he is in constant nagging pain.

 Job asserts his morality and integrity, he know God sees all and asks to examine himself to find deceit, he shared his food with the orphan.

 Elihu rebukes Job and the other three in anger,  he understands the situation and  has waited patiently and desperately, he wants to speak for God about Job.

 Elihu claims to be righteous also like Job and to speak for God, and says God is great in knowledge and wisdom and does not need to answer to man.

 Elihu vindicates God's justice in the way He has treated Job, God is a just rewarder and punisher in all matters, and Job answers like a sinner.

 Elihu states that Job is wrong to even want an answer from God,  the clouds and the birds in the sky declare God's glory.

 Elihu continues that no one has enough knowledge to question God about anything, its the godless who nurture anger, be careful in even judging the wicked.

   God speaks in the thunder and lighting , doing great things that we do not comprehend, he controls the snows, the wnds, and the clouds.

 God appears in a whirlwind and now asks Job where was he for consultation when he created the earth, put the stars in the sky and measured the sea.  

 God speaks about the vastness  and decency of life on earth from the goat to the soaring eagle which he created and sustains.

 Job answers with nothing, God speaks again assuring the proud will be humbled, he points to the powerful behemoth which He created. 

God points to the leviathan a great and powerful sea creature that cannot be tamed by man and answers only to God.

Job repents in sack cloth and ashes admitting he had no right to question God, God's wrath is kindled against Job's friends and his wealth family and status are restored when he prayed for his friends.

 Esther is  a beautiful young orphaned Jewish woman  who saves the Jewish people from annihilation by schemes of Haman under the rule of Medo Persian king Xerxes during Jewish exile. 

 150 songs of worship Praise God for who God is or ask how long until God establishes His justice and rule permanently. 

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