Draw near to God, and God will draw near to you
This series of Bible studies seeks to retell the stories of women who were divinely called and empowered to do great things. Many of them rose to the occasion, and a few very famously did not. Often, the tragedies and triumphs in their lives are missed, and their stories are told from perspectives other than with the honor and dignity they deserve.
After excavating their narratives from millennia of obfuscation, now meet the freshly restored, valiant, vivid (and sometimes villainous) women of the Bible.
Wife of Job
She has been cast as a villain in Job’s ordeal. Of the five people who speak with him, four are theologizing friends who who defend God’s character and attributes while insisting Job must have some hidden sin.
It is only his wife who insists Job do something about his predicament.
This thirty-page book includes the retelling of story about the wife of Job, a fifteen-question Bible study, and link to a twenty-minute multi-media presentation of the account concerning Job’s wife and the dilemma placed before her. She and her husband had lost everything. As she watched her man wither into quiet despair, what action would she urge her husband to take?
The answer may surprise you.
Her Speech Is so Explosive
… it has left scholars and theologians arguing for thousands of years.
If there ever was a controversial figure in the Bible, it would be Job’s wife. Was she a villainess? Or a heroine? Her story is found in the book of Job, which centers on a man named Job who lived in the ancient near east in what would one day become northwest Arabia.
He and his wife were living a clearly blessed life, and it would have been assumed this couple was favored by God. Yet, when Job and his wife received bitter blows, losing all they had, the tide of public admiration changed to public abasement.
But it wasn’t until Job was struck down with a devastating disease that it became clear he was the target of cosmic catastrophes.
And what his wife had to say has rocked Bible readers for millennia.
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I have always felt as though Job’s wife was maligned. There is so much we don’t understand when we don’t know important details (like the various meanings of “barak”). Thank you for this presentation.
Amen to that! This has been my passion for the past five years, to re-examine the stories of women in the Bible from the God perspective first, not trying to fit their stories into a particular theology about women.
It has been exhilarating and incredibly encouraging to see how the Lord honored and loved these women, and preserved their stories – especially the important, unexpected, wonderful parts – for thousands of years