God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible, tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

The oldest book of the Bible is not the book of Genesis. Now it goes back to the very beginning, no doubt, but the oldest book of the Bible, it predates

the writing of the Pentateuch, is the book of Job.

And it's an interesting book because the book of Job deals with the oldest issue in the world,

and that is the problems that human beings deal with.

Man that is born of woman is a few days and full of trouble.

Well, Job had his share of trouble, maybe more than most would ever have in a lifetime.

He lived around 2000 BC, about the time

of the patriarchs, but we believe perhaps he lived prior to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob because

there's no mention of Israel, no mention of Egypt, or the law, or Canaan. And so this is a very ancient

book that we've come to journey through today. We're

journeying through Job. And the theme of the book is why the righteous suffer. You know, Job probably

suffered more than about any man in scripture outside the Lord Jesus Christ. He lost his wealth.

He lost his children. He lost his health, he lost his wife's support. She said

curse God and die. He lost his friends. The worst thing he lost was he lost his sense of the

graciousness of God. You know this was the worst thing he lost. It was the one self-inflicted wound

that he had. He never cursed God, but he did curse the day he was born worst thing he lost. It was the one self-inflicted wound that he had. He never cursed God,

but he did curse the day he was born, and he became bitter. You remember that he began where the

Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. And in all that, Job sin not,

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