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Job 23:1-17
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- Reading the Text:
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- "Argument
with God," Comparative World Scriptures from United Communities
of Spirit.
-
Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org.
- From the Geneva Notes.
- "He shows the just cause of his complaining
and concerning that Eliphaz had exhorted him to return to God, Job
22:21 he declares that he desires nothing more, but it seems that
God would not be found of him."
- From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
- "A patient waiting for death and judgment is
our wisdom and duty, and it cannot be without a holy fear and
trembling. A passionate wishing for death or judgement is our sin
and folly, and ill becomes us, as it did Job."
- From
Wesley's
Notes.
- "This and some such expressions of Job cannot
be excused from irreverence towards God, for which God afterwards
reproves him, and Job abhorreth himself."
- "The
Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith: Job 23:6," Charles H.
Spurgeon, 1857.
- "Order
and Argument in Prayer: Job 23:3,4," Charles H. Spurgeon, 1866.
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- (vs 17) ""Darkness" in the second
clause, not the same Hebrew word as in the first,
"cloud," "obscurity." Instead of "covering
the cloud (of evil) from my face," He "covers" me
with it (Job 22:11)."
- "Wither
Goest Thou: Job 23:10," Charles H. Spurgeon, 1889.
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
-
Commentary, Job 23:1-9, 16-17, Karl Jacobson, Preaching This Week,
WorkingPreacher.org, 2009.
- "Job resonates. Job echoes not just Jesus' cries,
but our very own. Job gives voice to the bitter complaints and
terrors that any believer may feel and that no doubt some who
will join us for worship this Sunday are feeling. We do well both to
let him speak, and to speak with him."
-
Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal.
-
Job 23:1-9, 16-17, Pentecost 19,
2009, The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common
Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan, Paul Tonson,
Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church, Melbourne,
Australia.
- "It is a very
realistic picture of a person who is confident, on one the hand
about some aspects of their relationship with God, and on the other
hand are aware of the mystery and what they don't know about God.
This chapter continues to affirm that it is okay to rail and make
complaint against God."
-
Job 23:1-17, Pentecost 19,
Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological
Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in
Australia.
- Articles & Background:
-
"Job 23-24, Explanation," David J.A. Clines, University of Sheffield.
From Word Biblical Commentary, 2003.
- "Why,
God? A Tale of Two Sufferers," Burton Z. Cooper, Louisville
Theological Seminary. Theology Today, 1986.
- "Job is healed when a new
image of God appears to him. Now be can let go of the monarchial
image of God. He is healed because, in letting go of the image of
all-controlling power, he is letting go of the experience of God as
the enemy, the one who "crushes" him."
-
"Is God Responsible? The Tsunami & Other Evils," John Garvey,
Commonweal, 2005.
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Balentine, Samuel E., "Between Text & Sermon, Job 23:1-9, 16-17," Interpretation, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Brown, William P., "Introducing Job:
A Journey of Transformation," Interpretation, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Clines, David J.A.,
"Job's Fifth Friend: An Ethical Critique of the Book of Job,"
Biblical Interpretation, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Cooper, Burton Z.,
"Why God: A Tale of Two Sufferers," Theology Today, 1986.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
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Deuel, David C., "Job 19:25 and Job 23:10
Revisited: An Exegetical Note," Master's Seminary Journal, 1994.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Hall, Douglas John,
"Suffering: The Badge of Discipline," The Living Pulpit, 1995.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Newsom, Carol A., "Job and His
Friends, A Conflict of Moral Imaginations," Interpretation, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Priest, John, "Job and JB: The
Goodness of God or the Godness of Good?" Horizons, 1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Webster, Edwin C.,
"Strophic Patterns in Job 3-28," Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, 1983.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Wolfers, David,
"The Speech-Cycles in the Book of Job," Vetus Testamentum, 1993.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
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"Job," Illustrating the Story (lessons, children's sermons),
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