Trusting God in the Darkness: A Guide to Understanding the Book of Job
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In the Bible, Job is an upright, innocent, and faithful man with seemingly every reason to expect a long and happy life. Instead, Job faces intense personal suffering: the loss of his family, unbearable physical afflictions, and three discouraging friends. And yet, upon closer examination, the book of Job is about more than just Job’s suffering; it’s a story about God and his relationship to all of human suffering, posing the question How can a sovereign God let evil run rampant?
In his latest book, Christopher Ash examines the story of Job to answer the question Where is God in the midst of suffering? With honesty and compassion, he explores the roles Satan, the fall, and the cross of Jesus Christ play in human suffering. As readers walk through this practical guide to the life of Job, believers can find assurance that God will be with them in Christ through every season and every trial.
- Provides a readable and accessible exegetical introduction to the book of Job that examines what the book reveals about God and human suffering
- Serves as a study for personal readings, group Bible studies, or Sunday School classes
- Includes suggested resources for further study
- Getting to Know the Book of Job
- Do We Live in a Well-Run World? (Job 1:1–2:10)
- Weep with Those Who Weep (Job 2:11–3:26)
- What Not to Say to the Suffering Believer (Job 4–27)
- Two Marks of a Real Believer (Job 4–27)
- Is God for or against Me? (Job 19)
- Why Will God Not Answer My Question? (Job 28)
- Why Justification Matters Desperately (Job 29–31)
- A Surprising New Voice (Job 32–37)
- The One Who Is God (Job 38:1–42:6)
- The End Comes at the End (Job 42:7–17)
- Postscript: So What Is the Book of Job About?