Give Thanks in All Circumstances

Job 1:1-2:10; 42:12-17

Key Verse 1:20

(1Th 5:18)

Skim through the passage. What was the day of Job like? (1:15,17) Yet how did Job live? (1:1,5,8; 2:3) Describe how Job was blessed. Who blessed him? 

Read verses 6-7. What does this passage tell us about Satan?

Job did not go by a fancy title like a missionary or a pastor. Yet in verse 8 the Lord called Job “my servant”. In what respect was Job the Lord’s “servant”? What does the word “servant” indicate about the secret of Job’s success (financially or otherwise) so far?

Read verses 8-12. What does this passage show us about Satan? Why did the Lord allow Satan to strike “everything he [Job] has”? 

Read verses 13-19. There are four direct causes that caused the four disasters to occur: 1) Sabeans; 2) [Chaldean] Raiding Parties; 3) the fire of God [from the sky]; and 4) a mighty wind. Yet who is (or are) behind them? 

Think about Job’s response in verses 20-22. On what basis did he say, “May the name of the Lord be praised”? 

Read 2:1-10. Job’s reply to his wife indicates that choosing to accept from God selectively (i.e., only good, not trouble) is a “foolish” thing to do. Why?  

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