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The LORD Speaks Part 1
Job speaks without knowledge, yet he is declared an upright man.
For those of you who may believe that knowledge comes with being upright can rest easy.
Knowledge and wisdom are not easy to obtain, and knowing everything is not a requirement for being upright.
If Job thought summoning God to trial would lead to a calm, rational, orderly legal process, then he was mistaken.
Here is a mindset that might help as we read through this.
God is responding to Job’s challenge
God does not desire to browbeat and humiliate Job.
God intends to defeat Job in a contest, not to bypass the contest.
God is not using nature to frighten Job either.
God is going to tell Job how it is and it is up to Job to accept it.
It is setup as a fight (gird your loins) but it will not be physical.
It will be verbal.
The tempest or whirlwind had appeared before.
A great wind (ruach) that struck the four corners of the house that killed his children.
Job had requested a location for the ‘trial,’ but God has selected the time and place, and as it turns out...
God meets Job at the ash pile,
tending to his evil sores,
with a piece of pottery.
::: Who is this?
God knows who it is, so this is rhetorical.
Meaning: What kind of person would dare do so.
As it turns out, an upright, innocent, and FOOLISH person!
::: Darkens Counsel
The word is darkness and advice, plan, counsel
As if to obscure the plan, the truth.
HOW IS COUNSEL DARKENED?
WORDS...
ALL of THEIR WORDS have been misguided, because they
WERE CERTAIN they knew what was REALLY happening.
Now, in this story, JOB has been judged an UPRIGHT man
He has not been judged a WISE or KNOWLEDGABLE man
::: This is God’s CHARGE AGAINST Job...
obscuring the divine plan
speaking without knowledge
Gird your loins/Dress for action
Tying a belt around your waist to keep the skirt of the outer garment out of the way when you are doing vigorous activities.
CALL TO COMBAT
There are two large sections that capture God’s reply
Section 1 can be grouped into ten groupings about the physical world
That is what we will look at today.
NOT a question about the JUSTICE of Job’s claim against God
BUT a denial of Job’s competence to raise any question about the way the world is ORDERED
Job was not present during the work of creation.
There were morning stars and sons of God (shout not sing)
And there was one other…Prov 8:30, Wisdom was beside God during the work of creation.
NOW…IMPORTANT for this first LARGE SECTION
::::: The morning STARS and SONS of GOD.
Keep that in mind.
When it is done, there is a celebration.
Ezra 3:10-11 when the Second Temple was laid
2 Chron 5:13 when Solomon’s Temple was complete
Morning Stars: Did this take place in the morning?
Psalm 104:5-9 gives more detail or background on these verses
But the key object here is God’s focuses on His control of the SEA
God shut in the sea with doors.
God is WARNING Job that Job’s opponent, God, has a history of suppressing conflict.
Doors or gates (usually double) with a bar are part of usual defense works of a city.
Whether the doors and the mechanism that shuts it is meant to be:
A barrier to keep the sea out
Or a barrier to keep it in (prison)
Which makes Jesus’ statement to Peter all the more interesting.
Makes Pauls statement to the Thessalonians about a restrainer interesting too.
Most ancient creation stories in ancient cultures have some form of a battle between a god and the sea at creation.
But notice the language here:
Burst from the womb (who gave birth to the sea)
Whatever its mother is, it is not depicted here as God’s handiwork at creation
A swaddling band (as if it is an unruly infant)
Thus far and no further
It is allowed a space but it is restrained
So, we have STARS, Sons of GOD, the SEA
This 3rd group has an interesting element in it.
Have you commanded the morning since YOUR DAYS began?
Allusion to Genesis where the big light, the little light, and the stars have been functionally assigned a duty to mark days, seasons, and years.
God commands these elements in Genesis
But in ancient cultures there are gods that handle these things…Ugaritic godess of the dawn
What is interesting is the term, ‘wicked.’
It shows up twice here.
Question: Who are the WICKED?
Have we seen any humans in here yet?
No
And interestingly, humans are conspicuously absent
I DON’T BELIEVE THESE ARE THE HUMAN WICKED...
And the Hebrew scribes of the 8th and 9th century tried to tell us something was up with this too.
The word for WICKED is rashim,
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Entered into the springs of the sea (God has)
Walked in the Tahom?
Gates of Death and the Gates of Deep Darkness (Shadow of Death)
Then an INTERESTING QUESTION...
Have you understood the EXPANSE of the earth?
AS IF…Heaven and EARTH are connected in some way.
Light and Darkness have been personified here…As if they have a territory and a home.
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Morning Stars
Sons of God
Sea (Angry infant)
Morning/Dawn (commanded their place)
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