Lesson #9 is next.

Here is the link to the Sabbath School lesson study and discussion material:

http://www.ssnet.org/qrtrly/eng/07c/less09.html

The authors of the SS lesson indicate that; "It's interesting that the book of Job should be, along with Genesis, the first books of the Bible to be written." They don't reference how they know this. Can anyone elaborate? Also any thoughts on who wrote the book?

The study for Sunday has a piece of information you must have overlooked, a quote from Ellen White:

"The long years spent amid desert solitudes were not lost. Not only was Moses gaining a preparation for the great work before him, but during this time, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he wrote the book of Genesis and also the book of Job, which would be read with the deepest interest by the people of God until the close of time."—Ellen G. White, Signs of the Times®, Feb. 19, 1880.

The Jewish tradition, although not unanimously, attributes the book to Moses and, although some claim that the literary style of the book of Job is different from that of the Pentateuch, just the opposite seems to be true. For instance, the expression 'El Shaddai, "the Almighty," is found 36 times in Job and 6 times in Genesis, but is found nowhere else in the Scriptures in this form.

Thank you Rosangela, I did over look that quote.

Interesting that Ellen said that; " also the book of Job, which would be read with the deepest interest by the people of God until the close of time."

I find the quarterly's treatment Job's wife interesting. She was always the bad influence in my mind, much like how I think about some of my ex-girlfriends. But perhaps that is unwarranted, given the temptations that she must have experienced.

I watched Doug Batchlors, Lesson Study this evening. As usual he brings much into the study. He did point out that with loss we experice grief and one of the stages of grief is anger. What she had to say to Job could have stemed from that. So little info is given on the wife, how can one really try to judge the relationship out of it?

However, the advesary uses those we are close to as tools to tempt us. Scripture gives a number of examples, you might recall how it happened between Peter and Jesus

Interesting , asygo that "She was always the bad influence in my mind, much like how I think about some of my ex-girlfriends." I hadn't until this lesson given Job's wife to much thought. I had considered Job's friend as being the ones of no help. "Elipaz rebukes" him. "Bilddad affirms God's justice". "Zophar reproving" him. "Elihu justifies all God's ways". They had plenty to say but not much of it appears to be encouragement to Job.

They definitely were NOT an encouraging group!

I liked what his young friend had to say (Elihu, I think). I'll have to review, but I believe he was the only one not rebuked for what he said. Certainly, it wasn't exactly encouraging, but it wasn't wrong.