Jensens survey of the old testament adam 154
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a) Name means “hairy,” or “rough.”
b) Native of Naamah, or Naamath (2:11),
probably of North Arabia.
c) Possibly the oldest of the three friends.17
d) A dogmatist and moralist; blunt;
sometimes displayed a holier than-thou
attitude
e) Charged Job with boasting (11:2-6).
f) One of his main contentions: God knows
iniquity when He sees it (see 11:11).
4. Elihu.
a) Name means “He is my God.”
b) Native of Buz (possibly of Arabia or
Syria).
c) The youngest of the four men, not an
intimate companion of Job’s three
friends.
d) One of his main contentions: God is good
(see 33:24). Of the four men, Elihu gave
the best diagnosis of Job’s plight, saying
that sufferings are often God’s way of
refining the righteous. He did not go far
enough in his diagnosis, however.
III. SURVEY
The book of Job is a good example of the
necessity of making an overview of the text
in general before analyzing its small parts.
For example, we might read one of the
speeches of Job’s three friends and reach
very wrong conclusions if we did not rst
relate the speech to the total story, which
includes how Job’s plight originated (chaps.
1-2), and what God thought of the three
friends’ interpretations (e.g., 42:7).
A. A FIRST SCANNING
1. How many chapters are there in the
book?
2. Scan the opening phrases of the
chapters. Would you say the book is mainly
action, or mainly discourse? Where in the
book do the speeches begin, and where do
they end?18
B. CHAPTER CONTENT
Now scan the book again, and identify
more speci cally the content of each of the
chapters. For the speeches (3:1—42:6) you
need now only note who the speakers are.
Sometimes a speech covers more than one
chapter (e.g., Eliphaz’s speech of chaps. 4-5).
Only two chapters of the poetry section
contain speeches that are shorter than a full
chapter (see chaps. 40, 42). Record the
speakers of each chapter on a work sheet
that has four columns under the names of
Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.
Read each of the following sections, and
record the theme of each on paper:
The rst three passages of the middle
column (above) represent the debates
between Job and his three friends. The
