“Eliphaz Demonstrates How Not to Give Comfort”

Question 1

Job 16:22​—Does Job’s statement indicate that he did not believe in the resurrection? (w06 3/15 14 ¶11)

Answer 1

7:9, 10; 10:21; 16:22​—Do these statements indicate that Job did not believe in the resurrection? These are comments about Job’s immediate future. What, then, did he mean? One possibility is that if he should die, none of his contemporaries would see him. From their standpoint, he would neither return to his house nor get further acknowledgment until God’s appointed time. Job might also have meant that no one can come back from Sheol on his own. That Job hoped in a future resurrection is clear from Job 14:13-15.

Question 2

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Answer 2

APPLY YOURSELF TO THE FIELD MINISTRY
Return Visit Video: (5 min.) Discussion. Play the video Return Visit: The Bible​—Job 26:7. Stop the video at each pause, and ask the audience the questions that appear in the video.

Return Visit: (3 min.) Begin with the sample conversation topic. Tell the person about our Bible study program, and leave a Bible course contact card. (th study 11)

Bible Study: (5 min.) lff section 1 review questions 6-10 (th study 8)

Question 3

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Answer 3

Congregation Bible Study: (30 min.) bt chap. 2 ¶1-7 and intro to section 1

Question 4

review What Eliphaz said to Job was a lie. Jehovah values our efforts to serve him. (Ps 149:4) Even the righteous can expect to experience problems.​—Ps 34:19.

FOR MEDITATION: How can we “speak consolingly to those who are depressed”?​—1Th 5:14; w15 2/15 9 ¶16.

Answer 4

Eliphaz told Job that humans could never please God (Job 15:14-16; w05 9/15 26 ¶4-5)

Eliphaz implied that Job was wicked and that this was why he was suffering (Job 15:20)

Eliphaz’ words did not comfort Job (Job 16:1, 2)