Book of Job - Chapter 2 v 7-8b

 

The Wholeness of Job’s Suffering

 

 

Physical

mental

social

spiritual

 

 

 

 

  • Boils from the top of his head to the soles of his feet; pain (2v7)
  • a wish to die (3v11)
  • Loses his 10 children (1v19)
  • God refuses to answer me (9v16)
  • itching, open sores (2v7-8)
  • haunting fear (3v25)
  • Wife tells Job to curse God and die (2v9)
  • God attacks him like "a vicious animal which tears at his flesh and shakes him in his teeth" (16:9-12)
  • disfiguration (2v12)
  • no taste for life (6v6)
  • Every last human relationship has broken down (19:13-20)
  • God has abandoned me (23v8-9)
  • insomnia and delirium (7v4,13-14)
  • utter futility (7v8-9)
  • taunted by young men whose fathers were not fit to watch the dogs of the flock (30v1)
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    • cracking, blistering scabbing and oozing of the skin (7v5)
  • terror by night (7v14)
  • spit upon and his name is a byword (30v9)
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    • maggots bred in ulcers; sores infected with worms (7v5)
  • delusions by day (7v14)
  • after the 7 days of mourning the 3 friends walked away leaving Job for dead (2v13 " interpreted")
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    • chokin (7v15)
  • depression (7v16)
  • 3 friends were "miserable comforters" (16v2)
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    • total exhaustion (16v7)
  • bitter anger (10v59)
  • I stand up in the assembly and cry for help (30v28)
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    • my whole frame is but a shadow (17v7)
  • Red, swollen eyes from weeping (16v16)
  • I have become a brother of jackals and a companion of owls (30v29)
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    • Putrid breath (19v17)
  • a broken spirit (17v1)
  • all Job’s brothers, sisters and acquaintances withdraw (42v11)
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    • rotting teeth (19v20)
  • hallucinations (30v15)
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    • loss of weight (19v20)

     

     

     

    • weakening of bones; gnawing ceaseless pain (30v17)

     

     

     

    • diarrhea (30v27)

     

     

     

    • blackening of the skin (30v30)

     

     

     

    • high fever (30v30)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    The Wholeness of Jesus’ Suffering

     

     

    Physical

    mental

    social

    spiritual

    • The cross

     

     

    • God turned his back on Jesus while on the cross

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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