Zophar’s Zingers: His First Reply to Job  | Job 11:1-20 

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Introduction and Review . . . 

I. Zophar’s Zingers: His First Reply to Job (11:1-20) 

    A. Job It Should Be Worse (11:1-6)

        1. Fourfold Rebuke (2-3)

        2. False Accusation (4)

        3. Feckless Desire (5-6)

    B. Job You Are an Idiot (11:7-12)

        1. God’s Transcendent Greatness (7-9)

        2. God’s Immanent Awareness (10-11)

        3. Job’s Sinful Idiocy (12)

    C. Job Just Repent Already (11:13-20)

        1. Protasis: Zophar’s fourfold advice (13-14)

        2. Apodosis: Zophar’s Promise of Hope (15-19)

        3. Zophar’s Concluding Warning (20)

Seven Final Thoughts:

1. Be Thankful for Good Friends–Especially During Difficult Times.

2. There Is a Friend Who Sticks Closer than a Brother -- and There Is a Friend Who Sticks the Knife.

3. Beware of the Brashness That Often Comes with Youth.

4. Beware of Doctrinal Legalism.

5. Be Thankful That We Don't Get What We All Deserve

6. God's Grace Wins Even When Everything (and Everyone) Fails.

7. What a Friend We Have in Jesus (cf. James 2:23; John 15:14).