June 20, 2021 - Job 19:19-29
June 20, 2021
Lessons Learned
Job 19:19-29
by Wayne Gaeddert
1. Chapter 19 is Job’s response to Bildad’s speech from chapter 18.
2. In Chapter 18, Bildad does not believe Job’s self-proclaimed innocence.
3. Bildad supports the assertions of Eliphaz and Zophar that Job’s condition is because Job is being punished for wickedness.
4. Bildad is insulted that Job will not listen to the reasoning provided by the three friends.
5. Bildad is right that people suffer for their sins, however, not all suffering is the direct result of sin.
6. Bildad asserts in 18:21 that Job does not even know God.
7. Job describes the ‘wisdom’ of his friends as torment in 19:2.
8. Job expresses his feeling of being abandoned with no one coming to his aide:
No justice from God. V7
Everyone is against him. V12
He is estranged from family/relatives. V13
The servants in the house do not respond to him. V16
Brothers and sisters say he stinks. V17
Children despise him. V18
Intimate friends are disgusted with him. V19
9. Job has confidence that God will get it right when he is judged.
10. Job understands everyone will stand before God to be judged.
11. Job’s hope is in God.
12. God spoke to the patriarch's and they knew that God was speaking to them (Examples Gen 6:13-21, Gen. 12:1-3, Gen. 15:1). Nothing is recorded in Job about God previously speaking to him, but Job’s deep commitment to God indicates he had heard the voice of God in the past.
13. It is possible that everyone around Job thought that his condition was contagious, therefore they stayed away from him.
14. “ Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.” Romans 14:4
15. “Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;” Romans 14:10
16. “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.” Matthew 7:1-5
17. How do you warn those who need to be saved of coming judgment without being judgmental like Job’s three friends?
18. Job’s request for his words to live on in print is answered by God. The Bible has far out sold any other book in the world. (3.9 billion copies over the past 50 years). https://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-10-most-read-books-in-the-world-infographic-2012-12
19. Application:
We can be confident that God will not leave or forsake us. See Hebrews 13:5
We will all stand before God for judgment. See Romans 14:10
We can not judge the motives or circumstances of others. Romans 14:4
Can you say with Job that ‘I know my redeemer lives?’
We are to bear on another’s burdens. Galatians 6:1-2