1. What caused Zophar to answer Job?
2. What standard (truth or the understanding of a man) will Zophar use to answer Job?
3. What charge is implied against Job as you read Job 20:4-5?
4. According to Zophar, does the wicked hypocrite that perishes leave behind an unforgettable legacy?
5. Will the children of the wicked hypocrite, who are left behind after he dies, have to serve the poor?
6. What would a typical Jehovah’s Witness teach by perverting Job 20:11 and why would they be wrong?
7. What is the meaning of the argument that is set forth in Job 20:12-15?
8. What consequences does Zophar say will take place for oppressing and forsaking the poor?
9. Does Zophar say that the wicked will be able to flee from physical danger?
10. Is Zophar painting a pretty picture for the end of the wicked man’s life?
11. From the first three verses of chapter twenty-one, what attitude is Job displaying?
12. Is Job’s complaint only with men or does he also imply a complaint with God?
13. Does Job realize that when people compare what he once was with what has happened to him now that they are astonished?
14. How does Job consider the memory of himself?
15. How does Job begin to counter the implications that he is wicked because he’s suffering?
16. Has Job’s family been established (answer from chapters 1-2)?
17. Does Job argue that the families of the wicked are established?
18. What is the point Job is arguing in his defense based upon his words in Job 21:9-13?
19. When the wicked prosper, do they often reject God as Job argues (Job 21:14-15)?
20. Does Job allow his arguments to show punishment at all for the wicked?
21. Does Job claim to understand how God chooses to judge the wicked?
22. Does Job see that the arguments about the wicked by his friends are really charges against him?
23. What does Job want his friends to realize about the end of the wicked?
24. Does Job believe his friends are accurate in their charges against him?