Pastor’s Opening

THUS Job speaks of himself, not by way of vaunting, but by way of vindication. Eliphaz the Temanite and his two companions had brought distinct charges against Job’s character: because they saw him in such utter misery they concluded that his adversity must have been sent as a punishment for his sin, and therefore they judged him to be a hypocrite, who under cover of religion had exercised oppression and tyranny. 

Main Theme(s)

I. Let us sit down before this sketch of JOB’S HOLY LIFE: it will well repay a meditative study.

II. Secondly, let us take a peep behind the wall to see how Job came by this character. Here we note JOB’S HOLY SUSTENANCE, “I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.”