1. Job 24-25

2. Job 24 Job Job 24:1-2 Now even more on defensive Is God using higher standard? He lists sins of others Will God hold them accountable?

3. Job 24 Job Job 24:3-4 Others are dishonest Others exploit people Job hasn't done any of that

4. Job 24 Job Job 24:5-6 So why are the wicked doing ok? They make same as righteous Sometimes even better

5. Job 24 Job Job 24:7-24 Will wicked escape judgement? Looks like they are favored And here I sit, sick & destitute Why am I treated this way?

6. Job 24 Job Job 24:25 Job's friends have not helped him Put him on defensive

7. Job 24 Job “As the pastor of church and in my ministry I have heard one question almost a thousand times: 'Why does God let this happen to me? ' That is what Job is asking here. Job's premise is: I am such a fine fellow and that crowd over there is wicked, so why me?”

8. Job 24 Job “It is the same question that comes into the minds of many people. Job does not understand God, and we will find that Job doesn't understand himself, either. And yet Job has great faith in God with the limited knowledge that he has.”

9. Job 25 Bildad His final word to Job Fortunately brief Becoming thoughtful, intelligent Why hasn't Job broken yet? Job still maintaining his integrity Job standing up against criticism

10. Job 25 Bildad Bildad is traditionalist Believes God follows laws It has always been done this way So why would there be a change? This is what happens every time God punishes sinners

11. Job 25 Bildad But Job isn't breaking If he's guilty, he should break

12. Job 25 Bildad “There are men today, both theologians and scientists, who speak so learnedly, especially about the creation of the earth. They seem to know exactly what God did under certain circumstances two billion years ago.”

13. Job 25 Bildad “We have a whole brainwashed generation, but I am, perhaps, one of the biggest skeptics you have ever known. This gross assumption of knowledge is simply not justified. My friend, they don't even know what is going to happen tomorrow,”

14. Job 25 Bildad “so how can they speak with such authority about what happened two billion years ago? I think they are simply kidding themselves and those who listen to them. I get a little weary of them all.”

15. Job 25 Bildad “Does anyone really know exactly what the first chapter of Genesis means? I think that if Moses were here today and could hear some of these scientific explanations, he would smile and say,”

16. Job 25 Bildad “My, what these boys have learned since I wrote Genesis! They seem to know more than I knew about it.” “Both Bildad and our contemporary intellectuals need to remember that God's ways are past finding out.”

17. Job 25 Bildad Job 25:1-2 He has an exalted notion of God That is good

18. Job 25 Bildad Job 25:3 Nothing and no one escapes God He is the Supreme One

19. Job 25 Bildad Job 25:4 Good question Should have asked this at the start Although it is the right question Bildad doesn't have right answer

20. Job 25 Bildad Job 25:5 “Well, we have been to the moon now, and we have found that it is a pretty dirty place. It is covered with dust and dirt, volcanic ash – not a nice place to have a picnic.”

21. Job 25 Bildad Job 25:5 “It is not as romantic up there as it is down here when the moon is shining and you're out with your girl for the first time. The stars are not pure in his sight.”

22. Job 25 Bildad Job 25:6 “There are those who don't like to face that. I like it. People talk today about us having come from a worm. We haven't come from a worm, friends; we are worms. That is what we are now in God's sight.”

23. Job 25 Bildad Job 25 He asks a good question How can a man be clean Not in God's sight But he doesn't have right answer Who has the answer?

24. Job 25 Bildad Job 25 Only Jesus Christ has the answer

25. Job 26 Job His eighth speech Longest one Lasts through chapter 31 Professes faith in God his Creator Then we see his real problem

26. Job 24-25 References J. Vernon McGee Commentary