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Job’s Response to Bildad: A Battle in the Heart Revealed

Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter  Job 9-10

A. Job’s Heart for God

1. Be reminded of Job’s Godly Reputation

a. Before people: Job 1:1

b, Declared by God

Before His Trial: Job 1:8

After His Trial: Job 42:7

2. Be reminded of what Job desires: Job 9:1-3, Job 9:13-16, Job 10:1-2, Job 10:8-12, Job 10:18-22

B. Job’s Right Understandings of God – His Sovereignty

1. God is unconquerable and unmatched: Job 9:2-4, Job 9:12, Job 9:22-24, Rom. 8:35-39

2. God is all-powerful: Job 9:5-9, Matt. 28:18-20

3. God is incomprehensible and unseen: Job 9:10-11, 1 Tim. 3:16, John 1:18, John 17:1-3

4. God is transcendent (not like us): Job 9:30-32, Numbers 28:19, Psalm 50:21

C. Job’s Wrong Perceptions of God – Person and Works

1. God punishes His children: Job 9:17-18, Heb. 12:5-6

2. God provides no arbiter for His children: Job 9:33, 1 Tim. 2:5

3. God condemns His children: Job 10:1-2, Rom. 8:1

4. God oppresses His children: Job 10:3, Luke 4:18-19

5. God destroys His children: Job 10:8-10, Job 13:15

6. God withholds forgiveness from His children: Job 10:14, Ps. 130:3-4