Our Featured Bible Study - The Book Of Job.

Introductory: TERROR

Subject: Job Feels Terror

The book of Job, Chapter 5, verse 8: Eliphaz says to Job, "But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him." Eliphaz goes on to tell Job how awesome God is and how blessed a man is to be corrected by God Job 5:17.
Now, this could and should have been encouraging to Job, however, he get no comfort at all from the words of his friend Eliphaz.
Infact, Job actually slips deeper into his sense of self pity. Job replies to his friend; "The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God's terrors are marshaled against me." {Job 6:4} Job feels that God has come against him in terror, he says;
"If only my anguish could be weighted and all my misery be placed on the scales!
It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas --
no wonder my words have been impetuous.
The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison.
God's terrors are marshaled against me." Job 6:1-4
Job says to God, "If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of men?
Why have You made me Your target? Have I become a burden to You?

Let's go deeper into Job's plight. Go to the Menu at the left of this page for further study of this subject. Job's Question I.