Then Job answered and said:

2 “I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.
3 Shall windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and shake my head at you.
5 I could strengthen you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.  Job 16:1-5

A. Our Ministry to One Another Through Our Suffering: Job 16:1-5

1. Suffering moves us away from self-pity: Job 16:5a, 1 Cor. 1:3-4

2. Suffering creates desire to help fellow sufferers: Job 16:5b, Acts 14:19-22

B. The Suffering Believer: Observing Job, David, Christ

1. Pain of loneliness and sense of abandonment: Job – Job 16:6-7, Job 16:10-11

Christ – Mark 14:43-50, Luke 22:60-61, Matt. 27:45-46

2. Extreme weariness of physical, emotional, spiritual pain: Job – Job 16:8-9; 12-14, Job 17:1-2

Christ – Luke 22:39-44, Matt. 27:27-31

3. Emotional pain producing a flood of sorrowing tears: Job – Job 16:16-17; 20

Christ – Hebrews 5:7-10

4. Pain of betrayal

Job – Job 16:20

Christ – Luke 22:19-21