Job 6-7

A. The Emotional Depths a Believer May Experience

1. Weighted heart of grief: Job 6:1-3, Matt. 26:37-38

2. Irrationality of thoughts: Job 6:4, Job 7:20, Job 16:11-14, Job 30:19-22, Ps. 88: 16, Jer. 15:18

3. Exhaustion in spiritual depression: Job 6:11-13, Ps. 88:4, Ps. 22:14-15, 2 Cor. 1:8

4. Hurt from insensitive friends: Job 6:14-21, 2 Tim. 4:10, Col. 4:14, Philemon 23-24

B. A Believer’s Perseverance in the Emotional Depths

1. Resolve to honor God in his death: Job 6:8-10, Phil. 1:20

2. Remembrance of the holiness of God: Job 6:10, Exodus 15:11

C. Transparency with God from the Emotional depths: Ps. 130:1-2, Jonah 2:1-2, Luke 22:39-46, Matt. 27:46, Job 7:12-17, 2 Tim. 3:1-4

1. Life is under God’s curse

– It is hard: Job 7:1-2

– It is stressful and anxiety-filled: Job 7:3-4

– It is physically painful: Job 7:5

– It is mercifully short: Job 7:6-9

2. God’s ways of dealing with His people are mysterious

– He may appear to be our tormentor not our comforter: Job 7:13-14

– He may appear to be our destroyer not our healer: Job 7:20-21, Mark 4:37-38