8. Job

Question 1

What is the interpretive key to YHWH’s second speech?

Answer 1

The Heavenly Court

Question 2

How does the prologue anticipate the final verdict?

Answer 2

Job 1:22: “In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.”
Job 2:10: “In all this Job did not sin with his lips.”

Question 3

What are the Images of Death in the Book of Job?

Answer 3

1. The Womb of the Earth
2. Land of the Dead
3. The Power of Darkness
4. God appears as Tormentor

Question 4

Who is Behemoth most associated with?

Answer 4

death (Mot)

Question 5

Who is Leviathan most associated with?

Answer 5

Satan

Question 6

What are the guises of Satan in Job?

Answer 6

• Yam and Tannin (7:12)
• Sea (9:8)
• Rahab (9:13 and 26:12)
• The gliding serpent (26:13)

Question 7

What is the point of the lengthy description of Leviathan?

Answer 7

God is in charge

Question 8

What do the images of fire and lightning reveal?

Answer 8

reveal that the Leviathan is the adversary who has been masquerading as God throughout the book

Question 9

Why was the first Confession of Job Inadequate?

Answer 9

1. His first confession was silence
2. the relationship was not restored!
3. compared to the second confession, finds out this response is inadequate.

Question 10

What is the significance of Job’s Second Confession?

Answer 10

Restored relationship

Question 11

What are the three parts of Job’s second confession?

Answer 11

1. what Job now knows and understands
2. what Job now sees
3. what Job now does

Question 12

What does Job now know and understand?

Answer 12

1. no plan of God can be thwarted

2. His idea of God has been limited

Question 13

What does Job now do?

Answer 13

1. recognizes he is guilty of presumption

2. retracts his case