Job Lesson 1 | Setting the Stage: Shattered by Suffering | Job 1–2 | Pam Larson 2.7.24

Like Job, we may never know the reasons for our suffering. When we don’t understand God’s ways, trust His sovereign wisdom, goodness, love and mercy.

 

Setting the Stage: Shattered by Suffering  (Job 1-2 overview)

Character (1:1-5)

• Job’s circumstances, character, family, family, wealth

Catastrophes (1:6-2:10)

• Test #1 (1:6-22)
• The LORD and Satan
• Disasters
• Job’s response
• Test #2 (2:1-10)
• The LORD and Satan
• Affliction
• Job’s response

Comforters (2:11-13)

• Job’s friends and their initial response