The Book Of Job Sparknotes

The book of Job is immensely rich in its doctrine of God. We will examine the attributes of God and his relationship to the universe and his sovereignty. Therefore, the attributes of God’s greatness we will examine through from Job’s spiritual, personality, life, infinity, and incomprehensibility. The friends’ of Job held to a simplistic form of dogma. But it is not based on a simplistic dogma of divine retribution. I think the point of this book is to correct a simplistic dogma of divine retribution. Through this week reading and entire book there is a pattern of divine retribution and remuneration but God is the One who determines when and how it works out. It was based solely on God’s love for his own people and all human being to response properly by submission to the Sovereign

Since God is the Sovereign Lord, Job had to submit to God’s sovereign will. Job had heard of God but when he saw God he developed a deeper commitment to him (42:5). In 42:3 Job acknowledged that he had spoken of things he did not understand. God’s ways were too complicated for Job to understand. He submitted to an absolutely Sovereign Lord. You see Job’s speeches pattern from the second cycle in his fifth and sixth speeches, he again wishes that an impartial mediator would serve as his defense attorney before God (16:18–22; 19:25–27). Job is convinced of his innocence and is confident that God will vindicate him, even if it is not in the present earthly sphere. However, Job’s conviction of his innocence prompts him to accuse God of having wronged him (19:6). In his seventh speech he ponders God’s system of justice in light of God permitting the wicked to live happy and long lives (21:7–26) and permitting them to even be buried with honor (21:27–34). Job is confused about God’s moral order. However, he is still convinced that he wants no part with the counsel of the wicked since they do not recognize that God is the ultimate source of their blessing