Man in the Mirror
Bible Study

The One Year Bible Study

Job: How to Explain Suffering

Selected verses from Job

Weekly Readings: August 26 – September 1

The Big Idea:

 

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Questions

 

1. Where do you draw the line between inconvenience and suffering?___________________________________________________________

 

 

2. For Job, it could not have been any worse. Describe what his suffering would have looked like if he had lived in our day. ___________________________________________________________

 

 

3.What are the problems with trying to explain suffering? What was the fatal flaw of Job’s three friends when they tried to explain the reasons for his suffering?_______________________________________

 

 

4. Read Job 1:21-22, 2:10, and 2:13. Job 42:7 says that Job “spoke accurately” about God. In Chapter 42, Job went from, “It couldn’t be any worse” to, “It couldn’t be any better.” How did God take care of Job, and why? What is the lesson for us?________________________________