(Job 25 | Chapter XIX of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s *The Story of Job*) “How then can man be justified with God?” —Job 25:4 (KJV) Bildad’s final speech is the shortest in the book— just six verses. And yet, it is telling. There is no warmth.No acknowledgement of Job’s pain.Only a cold, impersonal theology: “How then can…
(Job 15 | Chapter XI of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s *The Story of Job*) “Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?” —Job 15:2 (KJV) Eliphaz returns—but this is not the same man who opened gently in chapter 4. Now he comes with heat.– No more suggestion.– No more mysticism.–…
(Job 11 | Chapter IX of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s *The Story of Job*) “Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.” —Job 11:6 (KJV) Zophar is the youngest—and the harshest. Where Eliphaz was mystical and Bildad was doctrinal, Zophar is brutal. He doesn’t veil his rebuke in poetry. He attacks: “Should thy…
(Job 8 | Chapter VII of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s *The Story of Job*) “If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression…” —Job 8:4 (KJV) If Eliphaz was subtle, Bildad is blunt. He opens his mouth and strikes where it hurts most: “If your children have sinned against God,…