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Bible study · Job 21:1-34

Job 21: Why do the wicked live?

Read Job 21:1-34 before you meet.

In a few lines

When the wicked tell God, "Depart from us" (21:14), depart is the Hebrew verb of the book's first verse, where Job "turned away from evil" (1:1). And the "nonsense" Job says his friends comfort him with (21:34) is hevel, the word of Ecclesiastes' "Vanity of vanities".

The verse to carry

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?”

Job 21:22

To talk about

  1. 1. "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?" (21:7). When has that question been yours, and what did you do with it?

  2. 2. The friends came "to comfort him" (2:11), and Job asks, "how can you comfort me with nonsense" (21:34). What makes comfort real, and not empty, when someone is suffering?

  3. 3. "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation" (21:2). Who has comforted you mostly by listening, and what did it mean to you?

Prayer requests