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Job 23:1-17
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
 | "Argument
with God," Comparative World Scriptures from United Communities
of Spirit. |
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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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| "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)." |
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| "Wither
Goest Thou: Job 23:10," Charles H. Spurgeon, 1889. |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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Job 23:1-9, 16-17, Pentecost 19,
2006, 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. |
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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. |
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| Articles & Background:
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"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." |
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| "Suffering:
The Badge of Discipline," Douglas John Hall at The Living
Pulpit.
| "Suffering
is "The badge of discipleship," not because suffering is
good (it isn't) but because there is suffering in God's
world, and so in God's heart - the God of suffering love [agape].
The world's suffering is not going to be engaged by people in
designer jeans frolicking and posturing in the wilds of Colorado in
search of "the meaning of life" (Their own!). It will only
be met and transformed, by those who take up the invitation to
"come and die."" |
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"Is God Responsible? The Tsunami & Other Evils," John Garvey,
Commonweal, 2005. |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Balentine, Samuel E.,
"Between Text & Sermon, Job 23:1-9, 16-17," Interpretation, 1999. |
| Clines, David J.A.,
"Job's Fifth Friend: An Ethical Critique of the Book of Job,"
Biblical Interpretation, 2004. |
| Cooper, Burton Z.,
"Why God: A Tale of Two Sufferers," Theology Today, 1986. |
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Deuel, David C., "Job 19:25 and Job 23:10
Revisited: An Exegetical Note," Master's Seminary Journal, 1994.
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| Hall, Douglas John,
"Suffering: The Badge of Discipline," The Living Pulpit, 1995. |
| Webster, Edwin C.,
"Strophic Patterns in Job 3-28," Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, 1983. |
| Wolfers, David,
"The Speech-Cycles in the Book of Job," Vetus Testamentum, 1993. |
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