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Estelle seems to have been drawing from Kidner’s articulation of the relationship of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes: https://www.wtsbooks.com/products/the-wisdom-of-proverbs-job-and-ecclesiastes-derek-kidner-9780877844051.
Philip,
Dr Estelle has done a lot of original research and is widely read in the literature. I imagine he has read Kidner. Who hasn’t?
Is there a reason why you assigned this direct relationship?
I was just giving the reference for people (like Joni) who don’t have access to Estelle’s unpublished lecture material. 🙂 Kidner’s exposition is worth reading in full.
Thomas,
I appreciate this. I understood you to be saying that Dr Estelle derived his view from Kidner.
My mother used to say the same to me very often: If everybody jumps from a bridge would you do the same?
The purpose of the book of Job is to show us that the defeat of the devil and the reconciliation of man is through God cursing a righteous man. Job’s friends were solid covenant theologians who insisted that God’s justice is overthrown by insisting on personal righteousness (which is a virtual impossibility) while exhibiting the cursed lot of the wicked (which is an overthrow of covenant justice). Job, in the end (42:7) is commended, “God can curse a righteous man” and His friends rejecting this core Gospel truth, being committed to the terms of the law, were required to affirm it in the following verses by bringing their sacrifices to Job, the righteous one, bearing curses not his own! The purpose? Display God’s higher wisdom of redemption in defeating the devil through Christ the righteous curse bearer. Job’s trials were not undifferentiated sovereign providences, but as Wolfers, the Jew observed, were specific curse sanctions from Deuteronomy for law breakers. Friends-“God cannot curse a righteous man in violation of his own law covenant”. Job-“Yes, he can”. Friends reject such foolishness. Job embodies it and is mystified. Without this, you can kiss redemption good-bye! (sorry for this long, unconventional answer to the question).