Job Chapter 12
Please read: Job 12 –
It really is incredible to think that Job put up with these three friends who spoke so cruelly against him. Most would have probably told the three men to leave and get off his property. But Job was not like most men. He was a man of great integrity who defended his honor and more importantly he defended God’s honor. He might not have liked what was happening to him, and he may have questioned why God had brought this anguish upon him, but he knew that God had a right to do what God wanted to do.
In Job’s response to Zophar and the others he made it clear that his friends thought they had all this great wisdom and could tell Job how God operates, but he proved them wrong in his response. He proved that God often operates in ways we do not understand.
Let's Reflect
1. Job was not letting his friends put him or God in a box. He was confident in his wisdom and understanding because he had spent time with God. He had spiritual understanding. Our faith, our confidence grows the more time we spend with God. Job also clearly understood what his friends thought of him. What did Job say his friends thought of him?
2. In verse 6 he states a truth that is often hard to accept. What is often true of the wicked, or a robber?
3. In verses 7-12 Job describes how all of life is in the Creator’s hands. The proof that God is the creator and that He controls life is evident all around us. What group would testify of this truth if we could ask them?
4. What two body parts does Job give as examples of the great creative work of God within our human bodies?
5. Verse 10 describes the truth that evolutionists cannot explain. What is this truth?
6. In verses 13-15 Job alludes to actions of God that we would call natural disasters. What natural disasters are described?
7. In the last section of this chapter Job sites many examples of ways God operates that may not make sense to humans. For example, God can cause a king to be stripped of his power and made to become a lowly servant. You yourself can probably think of a time when you saw or experienced something that made you question the way God worked in a situation, that didn’t make sense. What do you think this means for the believer to think about such things and not understand why they happened?
