Guiding Questions: Job 21

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Do you detect sarcasm in Job 21:2?
  2. What does Job insinuate by “you may mock” in Job 21:3?
  3. To whom is Job’s complaint directed if not to a man (Job 21:4)?
  4. To what does Job refer to in Job 21:5-6?
  5. What are the manifestations of the wicked person’s propensity (Job 21:7-13)? How does Job contradict his friends in these verses?
  6. What is the offense of the wicked as Job sees it (Job 21:14-15)?
  7. What does he imply by “their happiness is not their own doing” (Job 21:16)?
  8. Why is the second half of Job 21:16 in parenthesis?
  9. How does Job contradict his friends in Job 21:17?
  10. How does Job contradict his friends in Job 21:19-21?
  11. What is the force of Job’s remarks in Job 21:22-26?
  12. What is the evidence of the wayfarers to which Job refers in Job 21:29? How does he contradict his friends here?
  13. What is Job saying about the funeral of the wicked (Job 21:30-33)?
  14. How have Job’s friends failed him thus far (Job 21:34)?

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