UNSEEN BATTLE SERIES · BIBLE CARD 18 OF 39
Job
Iyov — “Persecuted, hated”
POETRY
- Author / Era
- Unknown (very ancient) · patriarchal era, possibly the time of Abraham
- Setting
- The land of Uz. A heavenly courtroom. A righteous man stripped to nothing.
- Key Figures
- Job, the LORD, Satan, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, Elihu
- Watch For
- The book’s real subject is not suffering but sight — “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee” (42:5).
- Connects To
- James 5:11 · Romans 8:18–39 · Hebrews 12 · 1 Peter 4
Key Verse
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”— Job 13:15
Points to Christ: The Righteous Sufferer
“For I know that my redeemer liveth” (Job 19:25).
For the Fire Pit
Job does not get an explanation. He gets an encounter. And it turns out the encounter is enough.
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