{"content":[{"text":"Faith & Worship Unit 18 Project — The Book of Job \n by Michael Prince","bbox":{"left":0.130431,"top":0.054123,"width":0.7161780000000001,"height":0.04865700000000001}},{"text":"(Presented \n to the Local Preachers’ Meeting of the Leeds North & East Circuit, July 2014)","bbox":{"left":0.077059,"top":0.126783,"width":0.823065,"height":0.022513000000000005}},{"text":"The first question you might ask is why study Job? Job is a longer than average book of the Old \n Testament- roughly equivalent to the books of Samuel or Kings. For a book of this length it is unique in \n being devoted to one subject- and that a matter of constant concern to Christians, the problem of pain. \n However it rarely appears in the lectionary. Has it anything to say to us?","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.175783,"width":0.823545,"height":0.07075800000000002}},{"text":"Job is one of the ‘Poetic Books’ along with Psalms, Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon and was \n probably written in the 5th-7th century BC. \n Job is usually regarded as a fictional book. It features a man from Uz- though the location of Uz is not \n known,","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.268359,"width":0.8154399999999999,"height":0.07064399999999998}},{"text":"Job(Ayyub) is one of 25 prophets named in the Quran. His story is similar to that in the OT except that his \n ‘comforters’ are his brothers.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.360821,"width":0.8365279999999999,"height":0.03363699999999997}},{"text":"In the OT he is a rich, successful and righteous man who suffers a series of tragedies, losing his family, \n wealth and good health in a series of hammer blows of fate brought about by Satan, with the consent of \n God, in order to test the strength of his faith.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.416275,"width":0.8300580000000001,"height":0.052122}},{"text":"The first two chapters and last eleven verses of the book, (prologue and epilogue) are in prose and the \n remainder in verse.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.490391,"width":0.8144450000000001,"height":0.03363700000000003}},{"text":"The prologue sets the scene and describes Job’s torments and suffering. Job’s response to the loss of his \n family and possessions is expressed at 1, 21.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.545846,"width":0.828881,"height":0.03363700000000003}},{"text":"Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken \n away; may the name of the Lord be praised. \n When he loses his health he comments similarly at 2, 10: ........shall we accept good from God and not \n trouble?","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.601301,"width":0.8157279999999999,"height":0.07064400000000004}},{"text":"Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Termanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite arrive to \n sympathise and comfort Job. They sit with him and do not speak for seven days.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.693763,"width":0.782631,"height":0.033636}},{"text":"The verse section starts at 3.1 and until Ch 27, 23 a series of frank discussions takes place. \n The three friends hold that God is almighty and God is just so Job must face up to the wrong he has done \n and crave God’s forgiveness.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.749369,"width":0.833403,"height":0.052121000000000084}},{"text":"The Book of Proverbs asserts that our actions produce consequences. \n Job’s ‘comforters’ have distorted this to say that bad consequences must be caused by sinful actions.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.823308,"width":0.802518,"height":0.03366199999999997}},{"text":"Job makes the same error and insists he has been treated unfairly and has nothing to repent for. He \n wants to put his case to God in person. Job is famed for his patience but is this really the case? After the","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.878788,"width":0.8266410000000001,"height":0.03363700000000003}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}