Job's Soliloquy on Darkness
The initial, dramatic action Job takes at the opening of Chapter 3 regarding the day of his own birth.
What is cursing it?
The historical figures Job lists who built magnificent places now lying in ruins, with whom he wishes he was now resting.
Who are kings and rulers?
The item that Job poetically states has become his "daily food."
What is sighing?
The regional identity or title associated with Eliphaz, the first of the friends to break the long silence.
What is a Temanite?
The physical reaction that occurred on the skin of Eliphaz's body when a spirit glided past his face.
What is his hair standing on end?
The specific atmospheric condition Job wishes would overwhelm and turn his birth day black.
What is a cloud (or thick darkness)?
The precious metals filled inside the houses of the princes Job envisions resting alongside in death.
What are gold and silver?
The liquid substance to which Job compares his uncontrollable pouring groans.
What is water?
The vulnerable body parts Eliphaz says Job used to strengthen and support when others stumbled.
What are feeble hands (or faltering knees)?
The structural material Eliphaz's vision says mortals live in, emphasizing their fragile foundations in the dust.
What is clay (houses of clay)?
The physical barrier Job wishes had been shut over his mother's womb to hide trouble from his eyes.
What are doors?
The specific state of an unborn child Job uses to describe how he wishes he had been hidden away in the ground.
What is stillborn?
The hidden treasure that those in misery search for, longing for it even though it does not come.
What is death?
*** DAILY DOUBLE ***
The two elements of character Eliphaz says should be Job's source of confidence and hope during trouble.
What are his piety and blameless ways?
The fragile insect used in the vision's analogy to show how easily human beings can be crushed.
What is a moth?
The specific group of celestial objects Job wishes would become dark instead of signaling the morning.
What are morning stars?
The specific group of people who finally cease from their turmoil once they reach the grave.
Who are the wicked?
*** BET THE FARM ***
The metaphor Job uses to describe how God has physically hemmed him in so his way is completely hidden.
What is hedged in?
The two agricultural metaphors Eliphaz uses to describe how people cultivate evil and trouble, only to harvest the exact same things.
What are plowing and sowing?
The key component of a temporary shelter that is pulled up when human beings die without wisdom.
What are the cords of their tent?
The primeval, chaotic creature referenced in Chapter 3 that professional cursers of days are ready to rouse.
What is Leviathan?
*** DAILY DOUBLE ***
The loud, oppressive noise that captives are relieved they no longer have to hear in the place of death.
What is the slave driver's shout?
The tragic reality Job describes in the final verse of Chapter 3: "What I feared has come upon me; what I ________ has happened to me."
What is dreaded?
The majestic, predatory animals whose teeth are broken and whose cubs are scattered under the blast of God's anger.
What are lions?
The central, rhetorical question the hushed voice asks Eliphaz: "Can a mortal be more _________ than God?"
What is righteous?