Job 2:9-10 - Homiletics

(along with Genesis 3:1-6 ).

Job and Adam: a parallel and a contrast.

I. A PARALLEL .

1 . Both were tempted.

2 . By Satan.

3 . Through their wives.

4 . To renounce their allegiance to God.

II. A CONTRAST .

1 . In the times of their temptation. Adam when at the summit of felicity; Job when in the depth of misery.

2 . In the modes of their temptation. Adam, assailed by the thought that God had unjustly deprived him of good; Job, by the suggestion that God had unrighteously afflicted him with evil.

3 . In the results of their temptation. Adam fell; Job stood. See