Poetic Books In The Bible

We find five poetic books in the bible. Those are the Ecclesiastes, Job, the psalms, the proverbs, and the Song of Solomon. As the name indicates, these books uses various poetic genres to, such as parallelism, to express one’s feeling or convictions about God. What makes poetic books special is that they are written from personal experiences, unlike some other books of poetry in different libraries. In this paper, we are going to discuss some of the poetic books authors and see what each author teaches us about our daily relationship with God.
Unlike the historical books, which focuses on Israel as whole, the poetic books are centered on the emotions of individuals. In the book of Job, we find a man who is very well respected. He has a beautiful wife and several sons and apart from …show more content…
The majority of the psalms were written by King David, and they were meant to be sung and not read. David is a king who was loved by God. That being said, he was occasionally a great sinner as some of us would describe him. What is remarkable in this book though, is David’s great will of repentance. This can be seen after every time when David sins against God; he humbles himself and asks God for forgiveness. On the other hand, we have a God who is very forgiving. To Him the gravity of the sin does not matter. What matters to Him, is the fear and the regret that we have in our hearts every time we sin. At this point, it is important to compare King David and King Saul. Both these kings sinned against God. One can go far and say that according to our human logic, David was a big of a sinner than Saul was. Nonetheless, the lack of repentance on the Saul’ side is what makes God angry at Him. In this book, there is a use of many similes and parallelism by the author. God is portrayed as a Savior who guides the lost; apart from that, He is also portrayed as a protector who protect His servants from the predators in some