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c. They have been afraid of what they have seen
d. He had not asked for their assistance
4. He challenges them to show him where he has sinned (6:24-30)
a. Show him his error and he will be quiet
b. Reproving him with no proof is of no benefit, it is like overwhelming the fatherless and
undermining one's friend
c. Look at him again and treat him justly, there is no injustice in him
5. Job now resumes his complaint (7:1-10)
a. His life is one of hard servitude, with months of futility and wearisome nights
b. The condition of his flesh makes him toss all night
c. His days swiftly go by with no hope of ever seeing good again
d. He expects to descend to the grave and soon forgotten
6. Job speaks out in the anguish of his soul (7:11-21)
a. Why does God terrify him with dreams and visions, so that he longs for death?
b. Why is God testing him every moment? How long will this go on?
c. Why can't God just leave him alone?
d. How has he sinned? What has he done to become a target for God?
e. If he has sinned, why doesn't God pardon his transgression?
f. As it is, he will just go ahead and die, and then God won't have to bother with him
anymore (the sort of foolish statement for which Job later repents, 42:3,6)

II. BILDAD SPEAKS AND JOB RESPONDS (8:1-10:22)

A. THE COUNSEL OF BILDAD (8:1-22)
1. Introductory remarks (1-7)
a. He rebukes Job for his words
b. He maintains that God deals justly
c. If Job's sons sinned, they were killed for their transgression
d. Restoration would occur if Job would only seek God and repent
2. Bildad appeals to the wisdom of the ancients (8-18)
a. Heed what others have already learned, for our time is short
b. The wicked are like the papyrus with no support, for they soon wither
c. God will not cast away the blameless, nor will He uphold the evildoers (the implication
is "Job, you are not blameless")
d. God will yet restore Job (assuming he repents)

B. JOB'S REPLY (9:1-10:22)
1. He agrees with Bildad, but who can truly be righteous before God? (9:1-13)
a. No one can contend with God, He is too wise and strong
b. Job provides numerous examples of God's power
2. Because of such power, Job's complains of God's inaccessibility (9:14-20)
a. Even if he were righteous (perfect?), Job would be unable to answer God
b. For even now God multiplies his wounds without cause
c. His own mouth would condemn him under the weight of God's strength
3. Maintaining his claim to innocence, he concludes that God destroys the blameless
along with the wicked (9:21-24)
a. Job professes to be blameless, but has lost his will to live
b. He knows of no other conclusion but that God looks lightly at the plight of the innocent

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