I like this Bible Study for two reasons. First, this Bible Study engages the participants to reflect upon their life from the book of Job, upon how God interact in Job’s life and their life, upon how Satan plays his role as well in the story. The book of Job is one of the books of the Bible that best describes how God interacts with people’s life. Second, I appreciate the fact that the Bible Study is drawn only from the prologue and the epilogue of the book of Job which somehow summarize the whole book. Thus, using these two parts of the book brings a glimpse about what the whole book is about. However, as I suppose that this Bible Study is designed primarily for adults, I would suggest that the dialogue part of the book of Job (Chap. 3-42:9) should be introduced as well, though not fully, at least in part for the sake of time probably, for instance chap. 3. Without the dialogue part, we miss something from the book of Job. For instance, in the prologue, Job is described as a righteous man. But in chap. 3, he curses his life and blames God. And in the rest of his speech he wants to speak with God personally, in fact he wants God to be in trial. Is he still righteous then? Then we can ask question like: what is it to be righteous? Does to be righteous mean only what is described in the prologue or does it include Job’s attitude in the dialogue? There, we can get something to teach about education. I think of palmer’s book “To Know as We are Known” when I read Job. Job knows God as God knows him. God says in 42:7: “After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: ‘My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
Barson