1. What was the difference in how Pharaoh's heart was hardened after the fifth and sixth plagues?

2. Was Moses willing to negotiate with Pharaoh concerning what God instructed him to ask Pharaoh to let them do?

1. Why do you think the Lord waited until the fourth plague to distinguish between the Egyptians and the Israelites?

2. A powerful testimony of a yielded servant is found in 8:13. Here was a man who had a hard time speaking (see Exod. 4:10), and God was doing what?

1. In chapter 4, what excuse did Moses use to say he could not do as God asked?

2. From chapter 5, what do we see can happen when we step out in obedience to God? And what is that response designed to do?

1. Why did the midwives not obey the king's order to kill the newborn boys?

2. What was God's response to the midwives?

1. What point was God making to Job as He described the power of Leviathan in chapter 41?

2. God restored all that Job had lost when Job did what?

1. How did Job respond to God (see 40:4-5)?

2. Why do you think Job responded in this way?

1. What did Elihu point to in these chapters as evidence of the greatness and power of God?

2. How did Elihu refute his own determination that Job's sufferings were the result of disobedience or rebellion? (Hint: 36:26)

1. When Elihu, the youngest of Job's "friends," speaks, there is wisdom in some of his words, but what is missing? (Hint: Romans 11:33).

2. What did Job's friends fail to recognize or acknowledge in Job's situation?

1. How did Job's standing in the community change as a result of his tribulation?

2. Job made a covenant with his eyes to do what?

1. What do you think Job was communicating about God in his response to Bildad in 26:14?

2. What do you think enabled Job to say, "[M]y heart does not reproach me for any of my days"?