Roots Bible Engagement Week 2
Day 6
Part of Roots
January 25, 2025

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“And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.’ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.” —Job 1:21-22 (ESV)

Bible Engagement

Tier 1: Job 42 God honors Job
Tier 2: Job 38-42
Tier 3: Job 37-42

Tier 1
1. How does Job respond to the Lord in chapter 42?


2. How does God respond to Job?


3. Why was God unhappy with Job’s friends?


Tier 2
1. In Job 38, we first hear God speak to Job with a list of his own
Reveal Answer
.
• What information does God reveal in chapters 38-39?


• How does Job respond to God’s answer? (see 40:3-5)


2. Remember that the book of Job is considered poetry. Reread or listen to God’s description about the behemoth, believed to be a kind of hippopotamus, in Job 40:15-24 and another animal in chapter 41. Note a few descriptions of these animals here.


• What do these chapters reveal about God’s attention to His creation?


• Why would God begin chapter 41 by asking Job so many questions?


3. How does Job respond to the Lord in chapter 42?


4. How does God respond to Job?


5. Why was God angry with Job’s friends?


Tier 3
1. In Job 38, we first hear God speak to Job with a list of his own
Reveal Answer
.
• What information does God reveal in chapters 38-39?


• How does Job respond to God’s answer? (see 40:3-5)


2. Remember that the book of Job is considered poetry. Reread or listen to God’s description about the behemoth, believed to be a kind of hippopotamus, in Job 40:15-24 and another animal in chapter 41. Note a few descriptions of these animals here.


• What do these chapters reveal about God’s attention to His creation?


• Why would God begin chapter 41 by asking Job so many questions?


3. How does Job respond to the Lord in chapter 42?


4. How does God respond to Job?


5. Why was God angry with Job’s friends?

Application

  1. Write down what you learned about God, humans, and the theme of suffering this week.

  2. Sometimes we spend so much time trying to figure out our situations that we don’t listen to what God has to say. Take a few minutes to sit with God in silence. What did you hear God speak to you about your own life through the book of Job? If you hear nothing, be encouraged that Job felt God’s silence at times, too, yet God was still near. Keep turning to Him.