Job 18-19

Bildad’s 2nd Sermon to Job
1. Bildad is mad (18:1-4)
2. Bildad wants to describe death (18:5-20)
a. Death is like being in darkness (18:5-6)
b. Death is like being trapped (18:7-10)
c. Death is like being surrounded (18:11-15)
d. Death is like being an uprooted tree (18:16-20)
3. Bildad says that’s where Job is headed (18:21)

Job’s 2nd Reply to Bildad
1. Notice, Job uses the same opening question (19:1-2)

2. Job wants to describe his feelings about his friends (19:2-5)
a. He feels tormented
b. He feels crushed
c. He feels reproached
d. He feels attacked

3. Job wants to describe his feelings about his God (19:6-12)
a. He feels wronged
b. He feels trapped
c. He feels neglected
d. He feels blocked
e. He feels lost
f. He feels dishonored
g. He feels uprooted
h. He feels like an enemy
i. He feels surrounded

4. Job wants to describe his other family/friends (19:13-20)
a. He feels alienated
b. He feels estranged
c. He feels forgotten
d. He feels ignored
e. He feels ridiculed
g. He feels detested
h. He feels rejected
i. He feels bankrupt

5. Job concluding thoughts (19:21-29)
a. He should have been pitied
b. His worlds should have been recorded
c. He will see God
d. His friends will face judgment


When God wants to drill a man,
And thrill a man,
And skill a man;
When God wants to mold a man
To play the noblest part,
When he yearns with all his heart
To create so great and bold a man
That all the world shall be amazed,
Watch his methods, watch his ways --
How he ruthlessly perfects
Whom he royally elects.
How he hammers him and hurts him,
And with mighty blows, converts him
Into trial shapes of clay
Which only God understands

I saw them tearing a building down,
A group of men in a busy town,
With a hefty blow and a lusty yell,
They swung with zest,
And a side wall fell,
Asked of the foreman,
‘Are these men skilled? The kind you would hire if you had to build?’
He looked at me, and laughed, ‘No, indeed! Unskilled labor is all I need.
Why, they can wreck in a day or two,
What it has taken builders years to do.”
I asked myself, as I went my way,
Which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder with rule and square,
Measuring and constructing with skill and care?
Or am I the wrecker who walks the town,
Content with the business of tearing down?