Reading the Bible in One Year as One Story
Verse of the week to live by:
“For I know that my Redeemer lives” (Job 19:25).
Bible Readings 2026, Week 2; January 5-11
Stage 3: Redemption
Job 3-24
As the story of the Bible unfold, we continue reading in the Book of Job. We are in the third stage: Redemption.
God’s work in Book of Job prepares the way for redemption in Christ not by giving Job explanations, but by reshaping Job’s faith so that it rests entirely on God’s grace, mediation, and self-revelation—realities ultimately fulfilled in Jesus.
Job begins as a righteous man, yet through undeserved suffering God strips away every ground of self-confidence, including Job’s reliance on personal integrity and traditional retribution theology. As Job wrestles honestly with God, he comes to see that human righteousness cannot secure justice before a holy God (Job 9:2–3), and he longs for a mediator who can stand between God and humanity (Job 9:32–33; 16:19–21). This longing points forward to Christ, the true and final Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5).
January 5; Stage 3: Redemption
Job 3-5
1. Job 3:1-2; “After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job said: “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’”
Was Job’s curse of his birth in chapter 3 a rebellion against God or honest, covenantal protest that refuses to let go of God in suffering?
2. Job 4:1; “Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said”
Who was Eliphaz the Temanite?
3. Job 5:6-7; “For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.”
How does this passage reflect Gen. 3?
January 6; Stage 3: Redemption
Job 6-8
1. Job 6:4; “For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.”
Does God really act against us?
2. Job 7:1; “Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?”
What does Job mean by the “days of a hired hand”? Why does he use this image to describe human life?
3. Job 8:1; “Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:”
Who was Bildad the Shuhite?
January 7; Stage 3: Redemption
Job 9-11
1. Job 9:1-2; “Then Job answered and said: “Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?”
How can a person be made right before God? In what ways does Job’s question anticipate the coming of Jesus?
2. Job 10:9; “Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?”
From where did Job receive this theological insight? How might God’s words to Adam in Genesis 3 have shaped Job’s understanding?
1. Job 11:1; “Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said”
Who was Zophar the Naamathite?
January 8; Stage 3: Redemption
Job 12-15
1. Job 12:12-13; “Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. “With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.”
Why does Job use the imagery of old age to describe God’s wisdom and understanding in Job 12:12–13? What does this metaphor communicate about God?
2. Job 13:24; “Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?”
What does it mean when Scripture speaks of God “hiding His face”? Does God truly turn away from His people, and for what purpose?
3. Job 14:1-2; “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.”
How does this passage resonate with God’s judgment in Genesis 3:16–19, and how does it point forward to Christ as the answer to humanity’s fall?
January 9; Stage 3: Redemption
Job 16-18
1. Job 16:1-2; “Then Job answered and said: “I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.”
Remember that the dialogue between Job and his friends represents a struggle to discern true wisdom.
In Job 16:1–2, Job discovers that human counsel cannot truly comfort him. Who is Job’s true comforter, and how does this longing point us to Christ’s invitation in Matthew 11:28?
2. Job 17:9; “Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.”
Who is the righteous? Who does the Bible identify as truly righteous?
3. Job 17:10; “But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.”
Why does Job reject his friends’ counsel, and what does this reveal about true wisdom?
January 10; Stage 3: Redemption
Job 19-21
1. Job 19:25-27; “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!”
In this passage, Job articulates hope in resurrection beyond death. On what basis does Job hold this hope, and how does this text anticipate Christ and redemption in Him?
2. Job 20:29; “This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God.”
This passage reflects Zophar the Naamathite’s understanding of God. In your view, how does God deal with the wicked?
3. Job 21:7-13; “Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them. Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance. They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.”
Compare this passage with Psalm 73. Why should we not be jealous of the wicked?
January 11; Stage 3: Redemption
Job 22-24
1. Job 22:4-5; “Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you? Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.”
In this passage, Eliphaz blames Job and tries to find a reason for his suffering. What do you think? Was Eliphaz correct in claiming that suffering is always the result of sin?
2. Job 23:3-4; “Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.”
How does this passage direct Job’s attention toward Christ the Redeemer?
3. Job 24:12; “From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.”
Does God really not hold the wicked accountable for their wrongdoing?