1. …mechanical retribution… Good living will be rewarded with success Bad living will meet with failure

2. ‘ha-satan’ – the satan, the accuser Job 1 and 2 1 Chronicles 2.1 Zechariah 3.1

3. Job 1.7-9 7 Yhwh said to the satan, “Where have you come from?” The satan answered Yhwh, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” 8 Yhwh said to the satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil?” 9 Then the satan answered Yhwh, “Does Job fear God for nothing?”

4. Job 1.21 Naked I came from my mothers womb, and naked shall I return there; Yhwh gave, and Yhwh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yhwh.

5. Job 2.10 “Shall we receive the good at the hand of God and not the bad?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips

6. Job’s Friends Eliphaz the Temanite Bildad the Shuhite Zophar the Naamathite

7. Job 4.7-9 7 Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? 8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. 9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

8. Job 8.3-4 3 Does God pervert justice? Or does Shadday pervert the right? 4 If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.

9. Job 11.4-6 4 For you say, “My conduct is pure, and I am clean in God’s sight.” 5 But O that God would speak, and open his lips to you, 6 and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

10. Elihu the Buzite 10 He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity. 11 If they listen, and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.

11. Job 38.2-4 2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. 4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you really have such deep understanding.

12. Job 40.1-3 1 And Yhwh said to Job: 2 “Shall a faultfinder contend with Shadday? Anyone who argues with God must respond.” 3 Then Job answered Yhwh: “See, I am small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no more.”