1. When good people suffer, where is God?

2. Job's character and wealth
1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
Sheep: 7,000
Camels: 3,000
Oxen: 500 yoke
Female donkeys: 500
Servants: “very many”
Sons: seven
Daughters: three

3. Eliphaz the Temanite Job 4:17
‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

4. Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 7:16
I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

5. Bildad the Shuhite Job 8:2
How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
Job 8:6
If you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.

6. Job 9:22-24
He destroys both the blameless and the wicked. When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges — if it is not he, who then is it?

7. Zophar the Naamathite Job 11:6
Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

8. Job 19:25
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

9. Job 40:1-2
And the Lord said to Job:
“Shall a fault-finder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

10. Hebrews 11:1
11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.