September 4, 2012 – Job 15

These responses seem to run together a little bit.  Here we have another argument on the reliance of worldly knowledge.  It speaks of elders and their knowledge and that it has been passed down.  How can Job argue against what the wisest elders have taught.  Then we have the same thing said but in a different way.  If you are wicked, bad things will happen to you.  Despair, wandering, darkness, dwell in ruins, wither, etc.  You can envision the arguments getting ratcheted up a little bit more with every exchange.  At first, it was just general conversation, but with every back and forth, the volume and tone get a little more intense.  I will tried to read the next back and forth with that in mind.  Maybe that will add something to it when you envision the scene and the growing tension.