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The Story of Job – The Greatest Test of Faith of All Time Like You_ve Never Seen Before · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: There was a man in the Land of Uz whose
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  Speaker 1: name was Job. This is the story of a man
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  Speaker 1: who lost everything but never lost his faith. A story
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  Speaker 1: about pain, friendship, questioning, and loyalty. A journey that makes
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  Speaker 1: us reflect on suffering and how we respond when life
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  Speaker 1: falls apart around us. Let's get to know Job, a
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  Speaker 1: man who, even in the worst trials, held on to
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  Speaker 1: his integrity. His story begins in times of peace and prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: but soon descends into storms that will test every fiber
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  Speaker 1: of his being. This is a narrative of loss, of
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  Speaker 1: friendships that disappoint, and of seeking answers when heaven seems silent.
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  Speaker 1: But above all, it's the story of a real man who,
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  Speaker 1: even when broken, chose not to abandon his faith. Job
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  Speaker 1: lived in us, a distant land. He was unlike most men.
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  Speaker 1: He was special. In chapter one, verse one, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us there was a man in the land of
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  Speaker 1: Uz whose name was Job. This man was blamed and upright.
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  Speaker 1: He feared God and shunned evil. Job wasn't just good.
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  Speaker 1: He was incredibly wealthy. He owned seven thousand sheep, three
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  Speaker 1: thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys
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  Speaker 1: and had many servants. He was the greatest man among
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  Speaker 1: all the people of the East. His family was large
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  Speaker 1: and close knit. He had seven sons and three daughters
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  Speaker 1: who loved to hold feasts in each other's homes, and Job,
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  Speaker 1: being a devoted father, always looked out for them. After
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  Speaker 1: each feast, he would offer sacrifices to God on their behalf,
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  Speaker 1: as Verse five says, perhaps my children have sinned and
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  Speaker 1: cursed God in their hearts. Job did this regularly, But
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  Speaker 1: one day something extraordinary happened in heaven while Job lived
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  Speaker 1: peacefully on earth. The sons of God came to present
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  Speaker 1: themselves before the Lord, and Satan was among them. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord asked, Satan, where have you come from? Satan replied,
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  Speaker 1: from roamings throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said, have you considered my servant Job.
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  Speaker 1: There is no one on earth like him. He is
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  Speaker 1: blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.
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  Speaker 1: But Satan responded, does Job fear God for nothing? Have
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  Speaker 1: you not put a hedge around him and his household
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  Speaker 1: and everything he has. You have blessed the work of
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  Speaker 1: his hands so that his flocks and herds are spread
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  Speaker 1: throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand and
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  Speaker 1: strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you
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  Speaker 1: to your face. The Lord accepted the challenge, but with
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  Speaker 1: one condition. Very well, then, everything he has is in
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  Speaker 1: your power. But on the man himself, do not lay
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  Speaker 1: a finger. So Satan went out from the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, ready to test Job. The day of the
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  Speaker 1: test came like a storm. While Job's children were eating
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  Speaker 1: and drinking in the home of their oldest brother, messengers
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  Speaker 1: began to arrive, one after another, each with terrible news.
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  Speaker 1: The first came breathless. The oxen were plowing and the
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  Speaker 1: donkeys were grazing near by, when the Sabians attacked and
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  Speaker 1: made off with them. They put the servants to the sword,
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  Speaker 1: and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: While he was still speaking, another arrived. Fire of God
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  Speaker 1: fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and
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  Speaker 1: the servants, And I am the only one who escaped
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  Speaker 1: to tell you. A third messenger rushed in. The Chaldeans
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  Speaker 1: formed three raiding parties and swept down on the camels
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  Speaker 1: and made off with them. They put the servants to
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  Speaker 1: the sword and I am the only one who escaped
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  Speaker 1: to tell you. Then came the final and most devastating blow.
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  Speaker 1: Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at
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  Speaker 1: the oldest brother's house, when suddenly a mighty wind swept
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  Speaker 1: in from the desert and struck the four corners of
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  Speaker 1: the house. It collapsed on them, and they are dead,
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  Speaker 1: and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: In a single day, Job lost everything, his possessions, his servants,
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  Speaker 1: and worst of all, his ten children. The pain must
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  Speaker 1: have been unbearable. The Bible describes Job's reaction in verse twenty.
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  Speaker 1: At this Job got up and tore his robe and
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  Speaker 1: shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship.
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  Speaker 1: What Job said next reveals his extraordinary faith. Though crushed
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  Speaker 1: by grief. He declared, naked, I came from my mother's womb,
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  Speaker 1: and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the
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  Speaker 1: Lord has taken away. May the name of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: be praised. And then the Bible notes something crucial in
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  Speaker 1: all this Job did not sin by charging God with
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  Speaker 1: wrong doing. Satan had lost the first round. Some time later,
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  Speaker 1: another gathering took place in heaven once again the sons
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  Speaker 1: of God came to present them before the Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: Satan was among them. God again pointed to Job and said,
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  Speaker 1: in chapter two, verse three, have you considered my servant Job.
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  Speaker 1: There is no one on earth like him. He is
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  Speaker 1: blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil,
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  Speaker 1: and he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me
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  Speaker 1: against him, to ruin him without any reason. But Satan
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  Speaker 1: wasn't finished. He replied, skin for skin, a man will
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  Speaker 1: give all he has for his own life. But now
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  Speaker 1: stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones,
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  Speaker 1: and he will surely curse you to your face. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord agreed again with one restriction. Very well, then he
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  Speaker 1: is in your hands, but you must spare his life.
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  Speaker 1: Satan went out and afflicted Job with painful sores from
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  Speaker 1: the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
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  Speaker 1: Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself.
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  Speaker 1: As he sat among the ashes as of deep mourning
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  Speaker 1: and suffering. His wife, broken by their losses, said to him,
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  Speaker 1: are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse guard and die.
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  Speaker 1: But Job replied, wisely, as recorded in verse ten, you
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  Speaker 1: are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good
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  Speaker 1: from God and not trouble? Even in this darkest hour,
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  Speaker 1: Job did not sin in what he said. News of
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  Speaker 1: Job's suffering spread and three of his friends came to
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  Speaker 1: visit him, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the shoe height, and
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  Speaker 1: Zophar the Namathite. They agreed to come together to comfort him,
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  Speaker 1: but when they saw him from a distance, they hardly
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  Speaker 1: recognized him. They began to weep aloud, tore their robes,
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  Speaker 1: and sprinkled dust on their heads, signs of deep grief.
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  Speaker 1: Then they did something remarkable. They sat with him on
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  Speaker 1: the ground for seven days and seven nights, not saying
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  Speaker 1: a single word, because they saw how great his suffering was.
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  Speaker 1: That silence was a gesture of compassion, but it wouldn't last.
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  Speaker 1: Soon his friends would begin to speak, and their words
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  Speaker 1: would bring more pain than peace. After seven days of silence,
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  Speaker 1: Job finally spoke. His pain ran so deep that he
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  Speaker 1: cursed the day of his birth. In chapter three, verse one,
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  Speaker 1: we read after this Job opened his mouth and cursed
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  Speaker 1: the day of his birth. His lament is heart breaking.
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  Speaker 1: May the day of my birth perish? And the knight
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  Speaker 1: that said a boy is conceived that day, may it
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  Speaker 1: turn to darkness? Job wished he had never existed. Why
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  Speaker 1: did I not perish at birth and die as I
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  Speaker 1: came from the womb? Job questioned why God gives life
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  Speaker 1: to those destined for suffering? Why is life given to
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  Speaker 1: those in misery? And life to the bitter of soul?
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  Speaker 1: To those who long for death that does not come,
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  Speaker 1: who search for it more than for hidden truth measure?
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  Speaker 1: He expressed his current state with painful words, for sighing
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  Speaker 1: has become my daily food. My groans pour out like water.
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  Speaker 1: What I feared has come upon me. What I dreaded
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  Speaker 1: has happened to me. I have no peace, no quietness.
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  Speaker 1: I have no rest, but only turmoil. After this outburst, Eliphaz,
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  Speaker 1: the eldest of Job's friends, decided to respond. He began
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  Speaker 1: with seemingly gentle words in chapter four, verse two. If
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  Speaker 1: some one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
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  Speaker 1: But who can keep from speaking? Eliphaz reminded Job how
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  Speaker 1: he had once comforted others. Consider now, who, being innocent,
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  Speaker 1: has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed? As
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  Speaker 1: I have observed those who plow evil and those who
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  Speaker 1: so trouble, reap it. Here's Eliphaz's logic. If your suffering,
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  Speaker 1: you must have sinned, he continued. Yet man is born
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  Speaker 1: to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. Eliphaz then
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  Speaker 1: shared a vision he had amid disquieting dreams in the night,
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  Speaker 1: when deep sleep falls on people. Fear and trembling seized
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  Speaker 1: me and made all my bones shake. A spirit glided
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  Speaker 1: past my face, and the hair on my body stood
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  Speaker 1: on end. The message of the vision was clear. Can
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  Speaker 1: a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man
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  Speaker 1: be more pure than his maker? If God places no
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  Speaker 1: trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
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  Speaker 1: how much more those who live in houses of clay,
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  Speaker 1: whose foundations are in the dust. In chapter five, Eliphaz
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  Speaker 1: continued his speech, urging job to seek God. But if
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  Speaker 1: I were you, I would appeal to God. I would
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  Speaker 1: lay my cause before him. He performs wonders that cannot
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  Speaker 1: be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. Iliphaz ended his
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  Speaker 1: speech with a promise that sounded almost like a threat.
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  Speaker 1: We have examined this and it is true, So hear
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  Speaker 1: it and apply it to yourself. He was suggesting that
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  Speaker 1: if Job would admit his sin and turn to God,
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  Speaker 1: his suffering would end. In chapter six, Job replied to Eliphaz,
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  Speaker 1: expressing the depth of his pain. If only my anguish
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  Speaker 1: could be weighed, and all my misery be placed on
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  Speaker 1: the scales, it would surely outweigh the sand of the seas.
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  Speaker 1: No wonder my words have been impetuous. Job explained the
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  Speaker 1: reason behind the intensity of his lament. The arrows of
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison.
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  Speaker 1: God's terrors are marshaled against me. He felt abandoned by
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  Speaker 1: his friends. Any One who withholds kindness from a friend
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  Speaker 1: forsakes the fear of the Almighty. But my brothers are
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  Speaker 1: as undependable as intermittent streams. Job challenged his friends, now
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  Speaker 1: be so kind as to look at me. Would I
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  Speaker 1: lie to your face? Relent? Do not be unjust, reconsider,
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  Speaker 1: for my integrity is at stake. In chapter seven, Job
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  Speaker 1: turned directly to God. Does not man have hard service
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  Speaker 1: on earth? Are not his days like those of a
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  Speaker 1: hired laborer, Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,
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  Speaker 1: or a hired man waiting eagerly for his wages? So
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  Speaker 1: I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of
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  Speaker 1: misery have been assigned to me. His anguish was so
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  Speaker 1: great that he wished for death. My body is clothed
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  Speaker 1: with worms and scabs, My skin is broken and festering.
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  Speaker 1: My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they
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  Speaker 1: come to an end without hope. Job questioned why God
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  Speaker 1: watched him so closely? What is mankind that you make
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  Speaker 1: so much of them, that you give them so much attention,
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  Speaker 1: that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?
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  Speaker 1: Will you never look away from me or let me
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  Speaker 1: alone even for an instant? After Job's reply, Bildad took
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  Speaker 1: the floor in chapter eight. His speech was even more
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  Speaker 1: direct than Eliphaz's How long will you say such things?
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  Speaker 1: Your words are a blustering wind? Does God pervert justice?
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  Speaker 1: Does the Almighty pervert what is right? Bil Dad got
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  Speaker 1: straight to the point. When your children sinned against him,
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  Speaker 1: he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
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  Speaker 1: He was suggesting that Job's children died because of their
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  Speaker 1: own wrongdoing. Bill Dad advised Job to seek God. But
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  Speaker 1: if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: If you are pure and upright even now, he will
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  Speaker 1: rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your
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  Speaker 1: prosperous state. He used metaphors to describe the fate of
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  Speaker 1: the wicked. Such is the destiny of all who forget God,
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  Speaker 1: so perishes the hope of the godless. What they trust
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  Speaker 1: in is fragile. What they rely on is a spider's web.
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  Speaker 1: They lean on the web, but it gives way. They
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  Speaker 1: cling to it, but it does not hold. Bildad concluded
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  Speaker 1: with a presumption. Surely God does not reject one who
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  Speaker 1: is blameless or strengthen the hands of evil doers. The
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  Speaker 1: message was clear. If Job were truly blameless, God wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have rejected him. Job answered Bildad in chapter nine, acknowledging
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  Speaker 1: God's power. Indeed, I know that this is true. But
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  Speaker 1: how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God? Though
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  Speaker 1: they wished to dispute with him, they could not answer
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  Speaker 1: him one time out of a thousand. He went on
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  Speaker 1: to describe God's immense power. God's wisdom is profound, His
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  Speaker 1: power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?
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  Speaker 1: He moves mountains without their knowing it, and overturns them.
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  Speaker 1: In his anger, he shakes the earth from its place
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  Speaker 1: and makes its pillars tremble. Job expressed his frustration at
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  Speaker 1: being unable to defend himself before God. Even if I
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  Speaker 1: were innocent, my mouth would can if I were blameless,
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  Speaker 1: it would pronounce me guilty. He questioned divine justice. If
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  Speaker 1: calamity brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.
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  Speaker 1: The earth is given into the hands of the wicked.
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  Speaker 1: He covers the eyes of its judges. If it is
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  Speaker 1: not he, then who is it? In chapter ten, Job
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  Speaker 1: continued his lament. My soul is weary of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I will give free reign to my complaint and speak
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  Speaker 1: out in the bitterness of my soul. He addressed God directly.
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  Speaker 1: I will say to God, do not condemn me, but
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  Speaker 1: tell me what charges you have against me. Does it
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  Speaker 1: please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of
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  Speaker 1: your hands while you favor the plans of the wicked?
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  Speaker 1: Job recalled how God had formed him. Your hands shaped
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  Speaker 1: me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
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  Speaker 1: Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now
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  Speaker 1: turn me to dust again? After Job's response. It was
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  Speaker 1: Zophar's turn to speak. In chapter eleven, he began with
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  Speaker 1: a rebuke, Will no one answer this flood of words?
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  Speaker 1: Shall a man full of talk be justified? Will your
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  Speaker 1: idle talk silence others? Will you mock without shame? Zo
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  Speaker 1: Far suggested Job's punishment was lighter than deserved. Can you
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  Speaker 1: fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits
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  Speaker 1: of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens? What
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  Speaker 1: can you do? They are deeper than the realm of
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  Speaker 1: the dead. What can you know? Know this? God has
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  Speaker 1: forgotten some of your iniquity. He urged Job to repent.
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  Speaker 1: If you devote your heart to him and stretch out
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  Speaker 1: your hands to him, if you put away the sin
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  Speaker 1: that is in your hand, and allow no evil to
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  Speaker 1: dwell in your tent, then you will lift up your
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  Speaker 1: face without shame. You will stand firm and without fear.
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  Speaker 1: So far closed with a warning, But the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them. There
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  Speaker 1: hope will become a dying breath. In chapter twelve, Job
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  Speaker 1: responded with irony, Doubtless, you are the only people who matter,
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  Speaker 1: and wisdom will die with you. But I have a
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  Speaker 1: mind as well as you. I am not inferior to you,
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  Speaker 1: who does not know all these things. He defended his situation.
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  Speaker 1: I have become a laughing stock to my friends, though
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  Speaker 1: I called on God, and he answered a mere laughing stock.
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  Speaker 1: Though righteous and blameless, Job acknowledged God's power and wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Ask the animals and they will teach you. Or the
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  Speaker 1: birds in the sky and they will tell you. Or
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  Speaker 1: speak to the earth and it will teach you. Or
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  Speaker 1: let the fish in the sea inform you. In his
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  Speaker 1: hand is the life of every creature and the breath
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  Speaker 1: of all mankind. In chapter thirteen, Job voiced his desire
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  Speaker 1: to speak directly to God. I will surely speak to
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty. I desire to argue my case with hid God. You, however,
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  Speaker 1: smear me with lies. You are worthless physicians, all of you.
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  Speaker 1: He warned his friends. Keep silent and let me speak.
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  Speaker 1: Then let come to me. What may Why do I
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  Speaker 1: take my life in my hands and risk my life?
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  Speaker 1: Though he slay me, Yet I will hope in him.
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  Speaker 1: I will surely defend my ways to his face. Job
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  Speaker 1: made a direct plea to God. How many wrongs and
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  Speaker 1: sins have I committed? Show me, my offense and my sin.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
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  Speaker 1: In chapter fourteen, Job reflected on human frailty. Man born
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  Speaker 1: of woman is a few days and full of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: He springs up like a flower and withers away like
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  Speaker 1: a fleeting shadow. He does not endure. He compared human
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  Speaker 1: life to a tree. There is hope for a tree.
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  Speaker 1: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and
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  Speaker 1: its new shoots will not fail. But a man dies
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  Speaker 1: and is laid low. He breathes his love us, and
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  Speaker 1: where is he? Job expressed a longing to rest until
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  Speaker 1: God's wrath had passed. If only you would hide me
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  Speaker 1: in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed.
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  Speaker 1: If only you would set me a time and then
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  Speaker 1: remember me, He ended on a note of despair. But
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  Speaker 1: a man dies and is laid low. He breathes his
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  Speaker 1: last and where is he? As the water of a
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  Speaker 1: lake dries up, or a river bed becomes parched and dry,
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  Speaker 1: So he lies down and does not rise till the
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  Speaker 1: heavens are no more, people will not awake or be
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  Speaker 1: roused from their sleep. In chapter fifteen, eliph has spoke again.
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  Speaker 1: Now with sharper accusations. Would a wise person answer with
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  Speaker 1: empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
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  Speaker 1: Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have
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  Speaker 1: no value? He accused Job of barrogance. You undermine piety
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  Speaker 1: and hinder devotion to God. Your sin prompts you your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: You adopt the tongue of the crafty Eliphaz questioned Job's wisdom?
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  Speaker 1: Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought
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  Speaker 1: forth before the hills? Do you listen in on God's counsel?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a monopoly on wisdom? He claimed to
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  Speaker 1: speak from greater experience. What do you know that we
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  Speaker 1: do not know? What insights do you have that we
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  Speaker 1: do not have? Gray haired and aged men are on
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  Speaker 1: our side, older than your father. He accused Job of
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  Speaker 1: rejecting divine comfort. Why has your heart carried you away?
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  Speaker 1: And why do your eyes flash so that you vent
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  Speaker 1: your rage against God and pour out such words from
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  Speaker 1: your mouth? He reminded Job of man's sinful nature. What
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  Speaker 1: is man that he could be pure? Or one born
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  Speaker 1: of woman that he could be righteous? If God places
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  Speaker 1: no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens
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  Speaker 1: are not pure in his eyes. How much less mortals
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  Speaker 1: who are vile and care rupt, who drink up evil
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  Speaker 1: like water. Eliphazi continued in verse seventeen, describing the fate
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  Speaker 1: of the wicked. Listen to me, and I will explain.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I have seen, what the
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  Speaker 1: wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors, to
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  Speaker 1: whom alone the land was given, when no foreigner moved
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  Speaker 1: among them. He described the constant torment of the wicked
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  Speaker 1: all his days. The wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man,
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  Speaker 1: through all the years stored up for him. Terrifying sounds
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  Speaker 1: fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him.
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  Speaker 1: Eliphaz said, the wicked live in constant fear. He despairs
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  Speaker 1: of escaping the realm of darkness. He is marked for
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  Speaker 1: the sword. He wanders about for food, saying where is it?
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  Speaker 1: He knows the day of darkness is at hand. According
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  Speaker 1: to Eliphaz, those who defy God face certain judgment, distress,
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  Speaker 1: and anguish fill him with terror. Troubles overwhelm him like
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  Speaker 1: a king poised to attack. Because he shakes his fist
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  Speaker 1: at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty, he used
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  Speaker 1: vivid imagery to describe the punishment of the wicked. Though
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  Speaker 1: he heaps up fat on his face and makes his
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  Speaker 1: waist bulge with flesh, he will dwell in ruined cities,
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  Speaker 1: in houses where no one should live, destined to become
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  Speaker 1: heaps of rubble. Elefh As continued, he will not prosper,
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  Speaker 1: nor will his wealth endure, nor will his possessions spread
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  Speaker 1: across the land. He will not escape the darkness. A
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  Speaker 1: flame will wither his shoots, and by the breath of
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  Speaker 1: God's mouth he will vanish. He concluded with a warning
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  Speaker 1: about the futility of trusting in vanity. Let him not
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  Speaker 1: deceive himself by trusting in what is worthless, for he
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  Speaker 1: will get nothing in return. Before his time is up,
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  Speaker 1: it will all be over, and his branch will not flourish.
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  Speaker 1: He will shake off his unripe grapes like ae, and
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  Speaker 1: shed his blossoms like an olive tree. Eliphaz finished with
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  Speaker 1: a grim prophecy, for the company of the godless will
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  Speaker 1: be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those
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  Speaker 1: who take bribes. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
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  Speaker 1: Their womb prepares deceit with these harsh words. Eliphaz closed
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  Speaker 1: his second speech to Job, convinced that his friend was
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  Speaker 1: suffering because of hidden sin and that only repentance could
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  Speaker 1: restore his fortunes. After hearing Eliphaz's harsh words, Job could
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  Speaker 1: take no more. He was tired of the empty sermons
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  Speaker 1: of his friends. In chapter sixteen, he vents, I have
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  Speaker 1: heard many things like these, miserable comforters. Are you all?
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  Speaker 1: Is there no end to your long winded speeches. Job
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  Speaker 1: was frustrated his friends spoke as if they knew everything,
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  Speaker 1: but they couldn't feel his pain. In verse four, he says,
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  Speaker 1: I also could speak like you if you were in
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  Speaker 1: my place, I could string words together against you and
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  Speaker 1: shake my head at you. Instead of comfort, Job felt
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  Speaker 1: his friends were only adding to his suffering. Their words
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  Speaker 1: were like knives. You have worn me out with your talk.
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  Speaker 1: God has turned me over to the wicked and thrown
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  Speaker 1: me into the hands of the ungodly. He then described
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  Speaker 1: how he felt attacked not only by his friends, but
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  Speaker 1: by God himself. I was at peace, but he shattered me.
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  Speaker 1: He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He
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  Speaker 1: has made me his target. His archers surround me without mercy.
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  Speaker 1: He pierces my kidneys and spills my bile on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Again and again, he bursts upon me. He rushes at
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  Speaker 1: me like a warrior. Yet even through this agony, Job
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  Speaker 1: asserts his innocence. Yet my hands have not done violence,
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  Speaker 1: and my prayer is pure. In a poignant moment, Job
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  Speaker 1: pleads that his blood not be hidden. O, Earth, do
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  Speaker 1: not cover my blood. May my cry never be laid
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  Speaker 1: to rest. He feels close to death, yet still clings
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  Speaker 1: to a glimmer of hope. Even in his deepest despair,
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  Speaker 1: Job speaks of a witness in heaven. Even now, my
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  Speaker 1: witness is in heaven, My advocate is on high. My
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  Speaker 1: friends scoff at me, but my eyes pour out tears
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  Speaker 1: to God. In chapter seventeen, Job continues speaking of death,
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  Speaker 1: drawing near. My spirit is broken, My days are cut short.
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  Speaker 1: The grave awaits me. He laments the absence of true friends.
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  Speaker 1: Mockers surround me. My eyes must gaze at their hostility.
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  Speaker 1: Job feels he is being treated like a guilty man,
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  Speaker 1: though he is innocent. The upright are appalled at this,
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  Speaker 1: The innocent are aroused against the ungodly. His hope for
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  Speaker 1: this life is fading. Where then is my hope? Who
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  Speaker 1: can see any hope for me? Will it go down
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  Speaker 1: to the gates of she h Will we descend together
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  Speaker 1: into the dust. In chapter eighteen, bil Dad speaks, irritated
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  Speaker 1: by Job, when will you end these speeches? Be sensible
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  Speaker 1: and then we can talk? Why are we regarded as
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  Speaker 1: cattle and considered stupid in your eyes? He then paints
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  Speaker 1: a terrifying picture of the fate of the wicked, implying
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  Speaker 1: that Job's suffering fits this pattern. Surely. The light of
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  Speaker 1: the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire
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  Speaker 1: stops burning, The light in his tent becomes dark. The
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  Speaker 1: lamp beside him goes out. According to Bildad, the wicked
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: live in constant terror. The vigor of his steps is weakened.
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  Speaker 1: His own schemes throw him down his feet, take him
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  Speaker 1: into a net, and he walks into a snare. A
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  Speaker 1: trap seizes him by the heel. A snare holds him fast.
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  Speaker 1: A rope lies hidden for him on the ground. A
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  Speaker 1: noose lies in his path. The final destiny of the wicked,
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  Speaker 1: as Bildad sees it, is grim. Terrors startle him on
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  Speaker 1: every side and dog his every step. Calamity is hungry
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  Speaker 1: for him. Disaster is ready. When he falls, it eats
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  Speaker 1: away parts of his skin. Death's first born devours his limbs.
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  Speaker 1: He continues with this fearful vision. He is torn from
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  Speaker 1: the security of his tent and marched off to the
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  Speaker 1: King of Terrors. Fire resides in his tent. Burning sulfur
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  Speaker 1: is scattered over his dwelling to build ad The wicked
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  Speaker 1: vanish completely below. His roots dry up, and above his
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  Speaker 1: branches whither the memory of him perishes from the earth.
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  Speaker 1: He has no name in the land. He is driven
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  Speaker 1: from light into darkness, and is banished from the world.
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  Speaker 1: He ends with sharp words. He has no offspring or
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  Speaker 1: descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
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  Speaker 1: People of the west are appalled at his fate. Those
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  Speaker 1: of the East are seized with horror. Surely such is
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  Speaker 1: the dwelling of the wicked. This is the place of
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  Speaker 1: those who do not know God. In chapter nineteen, Job replies,
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  Speaker 1: expressing his pain over the way his friends have treated him.
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  Speaker 1: How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
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  Speaker 1: Ten times? Now you have reproached me. Are you not
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  Speaker 1: ashamed to wrong me? Job insists his condition is the
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  Speaker 1: result of God's actions, not personal sin. Even if it
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  Speaker 1: is true that I have erred, my error remains my
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  Speaker 1: concern alone. If indeed, you would exalt yourselves above me
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  Speaker 1: and use my humiliation against me, then know this. It
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  Speaker 1: is God who has wronged me and drawn his net
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  Speaker 1: around me. He describes feeling abandoned by everyone. Though I
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  Speaker 1: cry violence, I get no response. Though I call for help,
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  Speaker 1: there is no justice. He has blocked my way so
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  Speaker 1: I cannot pass. He has shrouded my paths in darkness.
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  Speaker 1: He has stripped me of my honor and removed the
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  Speaker 1: crown from my head. Job's suffering has affected all his relationships.
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  Speaker 1: My brothers have gone away. My acquaintances are completely estranged
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  Speaker 1: from me. My relatives and close friends have failed me.
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  Speaker 1: The guests in my house have forgotten me. My female
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  Speaker 1: servants count me a stranger. They look at me as
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  Speaker 1: though I were a foreigner. I summon my servant, but
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  Speaker 1: he does not answer, even though I beg him with
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  Speaker 1: my own mouth. Even his marriage was affected. My breath
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  Speaker 1: is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the
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  Speaker 1: sons of my own mother. Even little boys despise me
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  Speaker 1: when I appear. They ridicule me. Amidst this complete despair,
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  Speaker 1: Job makes one of the strongest declarations of faith in
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  Speaker 1: the entire Bible. I know that my redeemer lives, and
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  Speaker 1: that in the end he will stand upon the earth.
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  Speaker 1: And after my body has been destroyed, yet in my
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  Speaker 1: flesh I will see God God, I myself will see
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  Speaker 1: him with my own eyes. Aye, and not another. How
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  Speaker 1: my heart yearns within me. Job finishes with a warning
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  Speaker 1: to his friends. If you say, how shall we pursue him?
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  Speaker 1: Since the root of the matter lies in him, then
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  Speaker 1: you yourselves should fear the sword, for wrath brings the
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  Speaker 1: punishment of the sword, so that you may know there
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  Speaker 1: is a judgment. In chapter twenty, Zophar, agitated, replies to Job,
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  Speaker 1: my troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am
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  Speaker 1: greatly disturbed. I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and
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  Speaker 1: my understanding inspires me to reply. Zophar then describes how
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  Speaker 1: he views the short lived joy of the wicked. Surely
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  Speaker 1: you know how it has been from of old, ever
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  Speaker 1: since mankind was placed on the earth, that the mirth
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  Speaker 1: of the wicked is brief. The joy of the godless lasts,
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  Speaker 1: but a moment. Though the pride of the godless reaches
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  Speaker 1: to the heavens, and his head touches the clouds, he
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  Speaker 1: will perish for ever, like his own dung. Those who
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  Speaker 1: have seen him will say, where is he? To Zophar,
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  Speaker 1: the wicked vanish quickly like a dream. He flies away,
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  Speaker 1: no more to be found, banished like a vision of
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  Speaker 1: the night. The eye that saw him will not see
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  Speaker 1: him again. His place will look on him no more.
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  Speaker 1: Zophar claims, the wicked must return what they gained unjustly.
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  Speaker 1: He must give back the wealth he gained, and will
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  Speaker 1: not enjoy the profit from his trading. For he oppress
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  Speaker 1: the poor and left them destitute. He seized houses he
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  Speaker 1: did not build. Punishment, according to Zophar, is unavoidable. Surely
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  Speaker 1: he will have no respite from his craving. He cannot
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  Speaker 1: save himself by his treasure. Nothing is left for him
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  Speaker 1: to devour. His prosperity will not endure. Zofhar details divine retribution.
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  Speaker 1: In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him.
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  Speaker 1: The full force of misery will come upon him when
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  Speaker 1: he has filled his belly. God will vent his burning
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  Speaker 1: anger against him and rain down his blows on him.
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  Speaker 1: To Zophar, there's no escape. Though he flees from an
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  Speaker 1: iron weapon, a bronze tipped arrow pierces him. It is
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  Speaker 1: drawn out of his body. The gleaming point comes out
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  Speaker 1: of his liver. Terrors will come over him. Total darkness
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  Speaker 1: is reserved for his treasures. A fire, unfanned will consume
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  Speaker 1: him and devour what is left in his tent. Zophar
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  Speaker 1: concludes with certainty, the heavens will expose his guilt. The
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  Speaker 1: earth will rise up against him. A flood will carry
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  Speaker 1: off his house rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
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  Speaker 1: This is the portion God allots to the wicked, the
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  Speaker 1: heritage appointed for them by God. In chapter twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: Job responds, asking for their attention. Listen carefully to my words.
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  Speaker 1: Let this be your consolation. Bear with me while I speak,
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  Speaker 1: and after I have spoken. Mock on, Job challenges his
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  Speaker 1: friend's simplistic logic, pointing out that many wicked people prosper.
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  Speaker 1: Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing
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  Speaker 1: in power. They see their children established around them, their
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  Speaker 1: offspring before their eyes. Their homes are safe and free
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  Speaker 1: from fear. The rod of God is not upon them.
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  Speaker 1: He describes the good life of the wicked. Their bulls
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  Speaker 1: never fail to breed, Their cows carve and do not miscarry.
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  Speaker 1: They send forth their children as a flock. Their little
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  Speaker 1: ones dance about, They sing to the music of tambourine
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  Speaker 1: and harp. They make merry to the sound of the flute.
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  Speaker 1: They spend their years in prosperity, and go down to
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  Speaker 1: the grave in peace. Job quotes the wicked as saying
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  Speaker 1: to God. They say, to God, leave us alone. We
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  Speaker 1: have no desire to know your ways. Who the almighty
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  Speaker 1: that we should serve him? What would we gain by
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: praying to him? He questions the over simplified theory of
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  Speaker 1: his friends. How often is the lamp of the wicked
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  Speaker 1: snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them the
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  Speaker 1: fate God allots in his anger. Are they like straw
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  Speaker 1: before the wind? Like chaff swept away by a gale.
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  Speaker 1: Job rejects the idea that children should pay for their
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  Speaker 1: parents' sins. You say, God stores up the punishment of
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  Speaker 1: the wicked for their children. Let him repay the wicked
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  Speaker 1: so that they themselves will experience it. Job concludes that
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  Speaker 1: death makes all equal. One person dies in full vigor,
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  Speaker 1: completely secure and at ease, well nourished, and with bones
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: full of marrow. Another dies in bitterness of soul, never
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: having enjoyed anything good. Side by side, they lie in
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  Speaker 1: the dust, and worms cover them both. He accuses him
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  Speaker 1: friends of comforting with falsehoods. I know full well what
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  Speaker 1: you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
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  Speaker 1: You say, where now is the house of the great Man?
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  Speaker 1: The tent in which the wicked lived? Have you never
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  Speaker 1: asked those who travel? Have you paid no regard to
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  Speaker 1: their accounts? On the day of calamity, the wicked are spared.
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  Speaker 1: On the day of wrath, they are delivered. Job ends
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  Speaker 1: his speech by challenging his friend's wisdom. So how can
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  Speaker 1: you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: your answers but falsehood. In chapter twenty two, Eliphas speaks
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  Speaker 1: for the last time, now directly accusing Job of specific sins.
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  Speaker 1: Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: a wise person benefit him? What pleasure would it give
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: thee Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: if your ways were blameless? Eliphas make serious accusations without evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Is it not because of your great wickedness, are not
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  Speaker 1: your sins? Endless commanded security from your relatives for no reason.
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  Speaker 1: You stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked. You
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  Speaker 1: gave no water to the weary, and withheld food from
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: the hungry. Though you were a powerful man owning land,
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  Speaker 1: an honored man living on it, the accusations continue. You
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  Speaker 1: sent widows away empty handed and broke the strength of
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  Speaker 1: the fatherless. That is why snares are all around you.
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  Speaker 1: Why sudden peril terrifies you. Eliphaz suggests Job thinks God
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  Speaker 1: can't see his sins. Is not God in the heights
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  Speaker 1: of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars.
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  Speaker 1: Yet you say, what does God know? Does he judge
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  Speaker 1: through such darkness? Thick clouds veil him so he does
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  Speaker 1: not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.
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  Speaker 1: He accuses Job of following the path of the wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Will you keep to the old path that the wicked
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  Speaker 1: have trod? They were carried off before their time, their
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  Speaker 1: foundations washed away by a flood. Eliphaz ends with a
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  Speaker 1: piece of advice for Job to return to God, submit
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  Speaker 1: to God and be at peace with him. In this way,
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  Speaker 1: prosperity will come to you. Accept instruction from his mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and lay up his words in your heart. If you
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  Speaker 1: return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you
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  Speaker 1: remove wickedness far from your tent and throw your gold
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  Speaker 1: into the dust, your gold of o fear, among the
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  Speaker 1: rocks in the ravines, then the Almighty will be your gold,
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  Speaker 1: the choicest silver for you. He promises blessings. If Job repents,
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  Speaker 1: then you will find delight in the Almighty and will
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  Speaker 1: lift up your face to God. You will pray to him,
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  Speaker 1: and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
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  Speaker 1: What you decide on will be done, and light will
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: shine on your ways. When people are brought low and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: you say, lift them up, then He will save the downcast.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: He will even deliver the one who is not innocent,
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  Speaker 1: who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.
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  Speaker 1: In chapters twenty three and twenty four, Job responds to Eliphaz.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: He begins by expressing his desire to present his case
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  Speaker 1: directly to God. Even to day, my complaint is bitter.
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  Speaker 1: His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning. If
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: only I knew where to find him, if only I
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  Speaker 1: could go to his dwelling, I would state my case
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  Speaker 1: before him and fill my mouth with arguments. Job trusts
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  Speaker 1: that God would listen. I would find out what he
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: would answer me, and consider what he would say to me.
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  Speaker 1: Would he vigorously oppose me with great power? No, he
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: would not press charges against me. There the upright can
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  Speaker 1: present their case before him, and I would be delivered
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: forever by my judge. But Job cannot find God. But
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: if I go to the east, he is not there.
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  Speaker 1: If I go to the west, I do not find him.
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  Speaker 1: When he is at work in the north, I do
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: not see him. When he turns to the south, I
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  Speaker 1: catch no glimpse of him. Still, Job holds on to
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  Speaker 1: his confidence. But he knows the way that I take.
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  Speaker 1: When he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
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  Speaker 1: My feet have closely followed his steps. I have kept
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  Speaker 1: to his way without turning aside. I have not departed
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  Speaker 1: from the commands of his lips. I have treasured the
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: words of his mouth more than my daily bread. In
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: chapter twenty four, Job questions why God allows injustice to
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: persist in the world. Why does the Almighty not set
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: times for judgment? Why must those who know him never
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: see his days. He then describes the evils. He sees
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: some remove boundary stones, They pasture flocks they have stolen.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: ox in pledge. They thrust the needy from the path
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: He describes the suffering of the poor like wild donkeys
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: in the desert. The poor go about their labor of
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: foraging food. The waste land provides food for their children.
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  Speaker 1: They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: vineyards of the wicked. Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: They have nothing to cover themselves in the cold. Drenched
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: by mountain rains, they hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: He continues exposing the cruelty of the wicked. The fatherless
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: child is snatched from the breast. The infant of the
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: poor is seized for a debt. Lacking clothes, they go
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Despite all this. Job notices that the wicked often seem
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: to prosper, Yet they cry out in the city. The
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: wounded groan for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Job details the crimes of murderers and other evildoers. There
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: are those who rebel against the light, who do not
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: know its way or stay in its paths. When daylight
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: and in the night becomes a thief. Job closes with
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  Speaker 1: a challenge, if this is not so, who can prove
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  Speaker 1: me false and reduce my words to nothing? In chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, bil Dad speaks briefly, Dominion and awe belong
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  Speaker 1: to God. He establishes order in the heights of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Can his forces be numbered? On whom does his light
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  Speaker 1: not rise? He questions how any human could be righteous
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  Speaker 1: before God? How then, can a mortal be righteous before God?
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  Speaker 1: How can one born of woman be pure? If even
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  Speaker 1: the moon is not bright and the stars are not
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  Speaker 1: pure in his eyes? How much less a mortal who
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  Speaker 1: is but a maggot, a human being who is only
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  Speaker 1: a worm? Job responds in chapters twenty six and twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: beginning with irony, how you have helped the powerless? How
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  Speaker 1: you have saved the arm that is feeble? What advice
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  Speaker 1: you have offered to one without wisdom? And what great
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  Speaker 1: insight you have displayed. Then, Job affirms his own understanding
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  Speaker 1: of God's power. The realm of the dead is naked
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  Speaker 1: before God, destruction lies uncovered. He spreads out the northern
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  Speaker 1: skies over empty space. He suspends the earth over nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He wraps up the waters in his clouds. Yet the
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  Speaker 1: clouds do not burst under their weight. He marvels at
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  Speaker 1: God's greatness. He marks out the horizon on the face
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  Speaker 1: of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.
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  Speaker 1: The pillars of the Heaven's quake aghast at his rebuke.
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  Speaker 1: By his power, he churned up the sea. By his wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: he cut Rahab to pieces. By his breath, the skies
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  Speaker 1: became fair. His hand pierced the gliding serpent. And these
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  Speaker 1: are but the outer fringe of his works. How faint
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  Speaker 1: the whisper we hear of him, who then can understand
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  Speaker 1: the thunder of his power. In chapter twenty seven, Job
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  Speaker 1: swears to maintain his integrity as surely as God lives,
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  Speaker 1: who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made
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  Speaker 1: my life bitter. As long as I have life within me,
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  Speaker 1: the breath of God in my nostrils, my lips will
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  Speaker 1: not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.
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  Speaker 1: He refuses to concede to his friends. I will never
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  Speaker 1: admit you are in the right till I die. I
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  Speaker 1: will not deny my integrity. I will maintain my innocence
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  Speaker 1: and never let go of it. My conscience will not
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  Speaker 1: reproach me as long as I live. He wishes for
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  Speaker 1: his enemies to share the fate of the wicked. May
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  Speaker 1: my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust.
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  Speaker 1: He declares the hopelessness of the wicked. For what hope
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  Speaker 1: have the godless? When they are cut off, when God
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  Speaker 1: takes away their life? Does God listen to their cry?
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  Speaker 1: When distress comes upon them? Will they find delay light
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  Speaker 1: in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
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  Speaker 1: Job insists he will teach them about God. I will
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  Speaker 1: teach you about the power of God. The ways of
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty I will not conceal. He lays out the
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  Speaker 1: destiny of the wicked. This is the portion of a
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  Speaker 1: wicked man, the heritage appointed to him by the Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: However many his children the sword awaits them. His offspring
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  Speaker 1: will never have enough to eat. The plague will bury
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  Speaker 1: those who survive him, and their widows will not weep
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  Speaker 1: for them. The wealth accumulated by the wicked will not last.
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  Speaker 1: Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up
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  Speaker 1: clothes like clay, the righteous will wear them, and the
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  Speaker 1: innocent will divide the silver. The house he builds is
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  Speaker 1: like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
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  Speaker 1: He lies down rich for the last time. When he
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  Speaker 1: opens his eyes, all is gone. Job ends by describing
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  Speaker 1: the fate of the wicked. Terrors overtake him like a flood.
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  Speaker 1: A storm snatches him away in the night. The east
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  Speaker 1: wind carries him off, and he is gone. It sweeps
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  Speaker 1: him out of his place like a whirlwind. It hurls
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  Speaker 1: itself against him without mercy. As he flees headlong from
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  Speaker 1: its power, people clap their hands at him and hiss
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  Speaker 1: him out of his place. In chapter twenty eight, Job
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  Speaker 1: presents a poem about wisdom. He begins by describing mankind's
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  Speaker 1: ability to extract hidden treasures. There are mines for silver
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  Speaker 1: and places where gold is refined, iron is taken from
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  Speaker 1: the earth, and copper is smelted from ore. Job highlights
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  Speaker 1: human ingenuity. Man puts an end to the darkness. He
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  Speaker 1: searches out the farthest recesses, for are in the blackest darkness,
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  Speaker 1: far from human dwellings. He cuts a shaft in places
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  Speaker 1: forgotten by foot, far from men. He dangles and sways.
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  Speaker 1: But he and trusts this ability with the inability to
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  Speaker 1: find wisdom. But where can wisdom be found? Where does
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  Speaker 1: understanding dwell? Man does not comprehend its worth. It cannot
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  Speaker 1: be found in the land of the living. Not even
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  Speaker 1: wealth can buy it. The deep says it is not
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  Speaker 1: in me. The sea says it is not with me.
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  Speaker 1: It cannot be bought with the finest gold, nor can
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  Speaker 1: its price be weighed in silver. It cannot be bought
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  Speaker 1: with gold from o fear with precious onyx or sapphire.
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  Speaker 1: Job underscores the priceless value of wisdom. Gold and crystal
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  Speaker 1: cannot compare with it, nor can it be exchanged for
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  Speaker 1: jewels of fine gold. Coral and jasper are not worthy
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  Speaker 1: of mention. The price of wisdom is beyond rubies. The
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  Speaker 1: topaz of cush cannot compare with it. It cannot be bought
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  Speaker 1: with pure gold. Then he asks again, where then does
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell is hidden from
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the
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  Speaker 1: birds of the air. The answer can only come from God.
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  Speaker 1: Destruction and death, say, only a rumor of it has
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  Speaker 1: reached our ears. God understands the way to it, and
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  Speaker 1: he alone knows where it dwells, for he views the
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  Speaker 1: ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
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  Speaker 1: Job reveals the true source of wisdom. When he established
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  Speaker 1: the force of the wind and measured out the waters,
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  Speaker 1: when he made a decree for the rain and a
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  Speaker 1: path for the thunderstorm. Then he looked at wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: appraised it. He confirmed it and tested it. And he
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  Speaker 1: concludes with this essential truth. And he said to man,
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  Speaker 1: the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to
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  Speaker 1: shun evil is understanding. In chapter twenty nine, Job reminisces
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  Speaker 1: longingly about his life before disaster. How I long for
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  Speaker 1: the months gone by, for the days when God watched
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  Speaker 1: over me, when his lamp shone upon my head, and
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  Speaker 1: by his light I walked through darkness. He remembers his
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  Speaker 1: prosperity and his place in the community. Oh for the
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  Speaker 1: days when I was in my prime, when God's friendship
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: blessed my house, when the Almighty was still with me,
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  Speaker 1: and my children were around me, when my steps were
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  Speaker 1: bathed in cream, and the rock poured out streams of
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  Speaker 1: oil for me. Job describes his role as a respected leader.
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  Speaker 1: When I went to the gate of the city and
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  Speaker 1: took my seat in the public square, the young men
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  Speaker 1: saw me and stepped aside, and the old men rose
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  Speaker 1: to their feet. The chief men refrained from speaking and
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  Speaker 1: covered their mouths with their hands. The voices of the
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  Speaker 1: nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof
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  Speaker 1: of their mouths. He was admired for his justice. Who
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  Speaker 1: ever heard me spoke well of me, and those who
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  Speaker 1: saw me commended me. Because I rescued the poor who
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  Speaker 1: cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to
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  Speaker 1: assist them. The one who was dying blessed me. I
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  Speaker 1: made the widow's heart sing. Job clothed himself in righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: I put on righteousness as my clothing. Justice was my
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  Speaker 1: robe and my turban. I was eyes to the blind
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  Speaker 1: and feet to the lame. I was a father to
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  Speaker 1: the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
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  Speaker 1: He used his power to defend the weak. I broke
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  Speaker 1: the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from
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  Speaker 1: their teeth. I thought, I will die in my own house,
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  Speaker 1: my days as numerous as the grains of sand, He
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  Speaker 1: describes his former honor. My roots will reach to the water,
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  Speaker 1: and the dew will lie all night on my branches.
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  Speaker 1: My glory will remain fresh in me. The ibow ever
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  Speaker 1: knew in my hand. People sought his counsel. Men listened
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  Speaker 1: to me, expectantly, waiting in silence for my advice. After
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: I had spoken, they spoke no more. My words fell
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  Speaker 1: gently on their ears. They waited for me as for showers,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: and dress in my words as the spring rain. His
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  Speaker 1: presence inspired hope. When I smiled at them, they scarcely
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  Speaker 1: believed it. The light of my face was precious to them.
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  Speaker 1: I chose the way for them and sat as their chief.
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  Speaker 1: I dwelt as a king among his troops, as one
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  Speaker 1: who comforts mourners. In chapter thirty, Job contrasts his former
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  Speaker 1: life with his current state of humiliation. But now they
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  Speaker 1: mock me. Men younger than I whose fathers I would
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: have disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
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  Speaker 1: He describes those who now scorn him. What use was
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: the strength of their hands to me? Since their vigor
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: had gone haggard from want and hunger. They gnawed the
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: dry ground in desolate wastelands. They gathered salty herbs among
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: the bushes, and the roots of broom trees were their food.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: They were banished from human society, shouted at as if
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: they were thieves. They lived in the gullies of the valleys,
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  Speaker 1: in k eaves and among the rocks. They howled among
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  Speaker 1: the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth. They were children
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  Speaker 1: of fools, the offspring of nameless men, driven out of
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  Speaker 1: the land. The contrast with his past is painful. And
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  Speaker 1: now their sons mock me in song. I have become
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  Speaker 1: a byword among them. They detest me and keep their distance.
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  Speaker 1: They do not hesitate to spit in my face. Now
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they
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  Speaker 1: throw off restraint in my presence. Job describes the attacks
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  Speaker 1: he suffers at my right hand. The mob rises, They
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  Speaker 1: lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: They tear up my path. They work to destroy me,
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  Speaker 1: with no one to stop them. They come like a
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  Speaker 1: wide breach. They surge forward amid the ruins. He describes
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  Speaker 1: his present condition. Terrors overwhelm me. My dignity is driven
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  Speaker 1: away by the wind, and my safety vanishes like a cloud.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Job speaks of his physical pain. Now my life ebbs away.
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  Speaker 1: Days of suffering grip me at night. Piercing pain racks
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: my bones, and the gnawing agony never rests. In his
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: great power, God seizes my garment. He grasps me by
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  Speaker 1: the collar of my tunic. He feels ignored by God.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced
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  Speaker 1: to dust and ashes. I cry out to you, O God,
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  Speaker 1: but you do not answer. I stand, but you merely
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  Speaker 1: look at me. You have turned cruel to me. With
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  Speaker 1: the might of your hand. You oppose me. Job sees
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  Speaker 1: death approaching. You lift me up on the wind and
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: make me ride it. You toss me about in the storm.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I know you will bring me down to death, to
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: the place appointed for all the living. He laments that
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: his pleas are unheard. Surely no one reaches out their
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: hand to a heap of ruins or cries for help
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: in disaster? Did I not weep for those in trouble?
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Was my soul, not grit for the needy. Yet when
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: I hoped for good, evil came. When I looked for light,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: darkness came. Job speaks of his relentless anguish. My heart
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  Speaker 1: is troubled and does not rest. Days of suffering confront me.
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  Speaker 1: I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: stand up in the assembly and cry for help. I
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: have become a brother to jackals, a companion of owls.
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  Speaker 1: My skin grows black and peels, My body burns with fever.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: My harp is turned to mourning, and my flute to
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the sound of those who weep. In chapter thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: Job makes a solemn oath defending his integrity. He refuses
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  Speaker 1: to accept the unfounded accusations of his friends. I made
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: a young woman. Job begins in verse one, declaring his
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: commitment to moral purity. He then asks, what is the
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: portion from God above or the heritage from the Almighty
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: on high? Is it not ruin for the wicked disaster
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: for those who do wrong? Confident in his integrity, Job
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: invites God to examine him. Does he not see my
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: ways and count all my steps? If I have walked
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: with falsehood, or my foot has hurried after deceit. Let
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: God weigh me in honest scales, and he will know
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  Speaker 1: that I am blameless. He continues with potential sexual sins.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or
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  Speaker 1: if I have lurked at my neighbor's door, then may
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  Speaker 1: my wife grind grain for another, and may other men
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: sleep with her. Job understands the seriousness of such sein,
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  Speaker 1: for that would have been a shameful act, a crime
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  Speaker 1: deserving judgment. It is a fire that burns to destruction.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: It would have uprooted my harvest. He speaks about his
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: treatment of his servants. If I have denied justice to
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: my servants when they had a grievance against me, What
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: will I do when God confronts me? What will I
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: answer when called to account? Did not he who made
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: me in the womb make them? Did not the same
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: one form us both within our mothers. He speaks of
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  Speaker 1: his generosity to the poor. If I have denied the
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: poor their desires, or let the eyes of the widow
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: grow weary. If I have eaten my morsel alone without
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: sharing it with the fatherless, And how he cared for
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: the needy from youth. From my youth I reared them
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  Speaker 1: as a father would, and from my mother's womb I
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  Speaker 1: guided the widow. Job shows his compassion. If I have
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  Speaker 1: seen any one perishing for lack of clothing, or the
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: needy without garments, and their hearts did not bless me
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: for warming them with the fleece from my sheep. He
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: denies putting trust in wealth. If I have put my
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: trust in gold, or said to pure gold, you are
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: my security. If I rejoiced over my great wealth the
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: fortune my hands had gained. He also rejects idolatry. If
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  Speaker 1: I have looked at the sun in its radiance, or
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: the moon moving in splendor, and my heart was secretly enticed,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: and my hand offered them a kiss of homage, these
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: also would be sins to be judged, for I would
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: have been unfaithful to God on high. He did not
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: rejoice in the downfall of his enemies. If I rejoiced
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: at my enemy's misfortune or gloated when evil overtook him,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: a curse against their life. Job speaks of his hospitality.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: No stranger had to spend the night in the street,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: for my door was always open to the traveler. He
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  Speaker 1: did not try to hide his sins. If I concealed
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: my sin as people do, hiding my guilt in my heart.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: He addresses his relationship with the land. If my land
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: cries out against me, and all its furrows are wet
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: with tears, if I have devoured its yield without payment,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: or broken the spirit of its tenants, Job ends his
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: oath with a powerful challenge. Then let briars come up
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: instead of wheat, and stink weed instead of ballei. The
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  Speaker 1: words of Job are ended. In chapter thirty two, a
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  Speaker 1: new character enters the scene. As Job's three friends stop responding,
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  Speaker 1: a young man named Ilihu, son of Barachel, the Buzite
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  Speaker 1: of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: for justifying himself rather than god. Ili who is also
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: angry with the three friends because they had failed to
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: refute Job and yet had condemned him. He had held
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: back because of his youth. I am young in years,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: and you are old. That is why I was fearful,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: not daring to tell you what I know. I thought
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: aige should speak, advanced years should teach wisdom. But it
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: is the spirit in a person, the breath of the
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Almighty that gives them understanding. It is not only the
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: old who are wise, not only the aged, who understand
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  Speaker 1: what is right. He criticizes Job's friends. I find no
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: wisdom among you, so I say, listen to me, I too,
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  Speaker 1: will tell you what I know. Eli, who feels compelled
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: to speak, The words within me are like pent up fire,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: like new wine skins ready to burst. I must speak
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: to find relief. I must open my lips and reply.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: He promises impartiality. I will show no partiality to any one,
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  Speaker 1: nor will I flatter any man. For if I were
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: skilled in flattery, my maker would soon take me away.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: In chapter thirty three, Elihu speaks directly to Job. But now, Job,
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  Speaker 1: listen to my words. Pay attention to everything I say.
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  Speaker 1: I am about to open my mouth. My words are
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: on the tip of my tongue. My heart is sincere,
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  Speaker 1: and my lips will speak what I know honestly, Eli,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: who reminds me Job of their shared origin. The spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God has made me. The breath of the Almighty
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: gives me life. Answer me, if you can prepare yourself
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  Speaker 1: and confront me, I am just like you Before God.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: I too, was formed from clay. He then challenges Job's statements.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: You said, I am pure without transgression. I am clean,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: and there is no guilt in me. Yet God finds
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: reasons to oppose me. He considers me his enemy. He
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: puts my feet in shackles and watches all my paths
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: Illy who asserts that God speaks in many ways. God
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: speaks in one way and then another, though no one
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: perceives it. In dreams, in visions of the night, when
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: to turn them from wrongdoing, and keep them from pride,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: to preserve them from the pit their lives, from perishing
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: by the sword. He describes how suffering is another way
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: God speaks. A man may be chastened on a bed
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: of pain, with constant distress in his bones, so that
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: his body finds no nourishment, and his bones, once hidden,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: now stick out. His soul draws near to the hit
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: and his life to the messengers of death Eli who
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: then speaks of restoration. Yet, if there is an angel
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: at his side, a mediator one in a thousand to
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: tell a man what is right for him to be
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: gracious to him and say, spare him from going down
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: to the pit. I have found a ransom for him.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Then his flesh is renewed like a child's. He is
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: restored to the days of his youth. He explains God's purpose,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: He prays to God and is favored by him. He
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: sees God's face and shouts for joy. He is restored
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: by God to his righteous state. Then he goes to
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: others and says, I have sinned and perverted what was right,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: but I he did not get what I deserved. God
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  Speaker 1: has redeemed me from going down to the pit, and
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  Speaker 1: I will live to enjoy the light. Eli who concludes
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  Speaker 1: this part with an observation, God does all these things
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  Speaker 1: to a man twice even three times, to turn back
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  Speaker 1: his soul from the pit, that the light of life
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  Speaker 1: may shine on him. In chapters thirty four to thirty seven,
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  Speaker 1: Eli who continues his speech. He begins chapter thirty four
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  Speaker 1: by calling the wise to listen. Hear my words, you
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  Speaker 1: wise men. Listen to me, you men of knowledge, for
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  Speaker 1: the ear tests words as the tongue tastes food. He
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  Speaker 1: criticizes Job's claims. Job says I am innocent, but God
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  Speaker 1: denies me justice. Although I am right, I am considered
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  Speaker 1: a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without sin.
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  Speaker 1: What man is like Job? Who drinks scorn like water?
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  Speaker 1: He keeps company with evildoers. He associates with the wicked
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  Speaker 1: Eli who defends God justice. Far be it from God
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  Speaker 1: to do evil, from the Almighty to do wrong. He
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  Speaker 1: repays everyone for what they have done. He brings on
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  Speaker 1: them what their conduct deserves. It is unthinkable that God
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  Speaker 1: would do wrong, that the Almighty would pervert justice. He
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  Speaker 1: speaks of God's sovereignty, who put him in charge of
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  Speaker 1: the earth, who appointed him over the whole world. If
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  Speaker 1: he were to withdraw his spirit and breath, all humanity
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  Speaker 1: would perish together, and mankind would return to the dust.
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  Speaker 1: Illy who questions Job's wisdom? Can one who hates justice govern?
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  Speaker 1: Will you condemn the just and mighty one? Is he
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  Speaker 1: not the one who says to kings you are worthless,
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  Speaker 1: and to nobles you are wicked? He speaks of God's omniscience.
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  Speaker 1: God's eyes are on the ways of men, He sees
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  Speaker 1: all their steps. There is no deep darkness, no shadow
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  Speaker 1: of death where evil doers can hide. In chapter thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: Elihu questions whether Job's righteousness has any effect on God.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this is just? You say, I am
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  Speaker 1: more righteous than God? For you also ask what advantage
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  Speaker 1: will it be to me? What profit will I have
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  Speaker 1: more than if I had sinned? I will answer you
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  Speaker 1: and your friends as well. Look up to the heavens
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  Speaker 1: and see observe the clouds which are higher than you.
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  Speaker 1: If you sin, How does that affect God? If your
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  Speaker 1: sins are many? What does that do to him? Idly
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  Speaker 1: who explains that cries without faith go unheard. People cry
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  Speaker 1: out under a load of oppression. They plead for relief
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  Speaker 1: from the arm of the powerful, but no one says,
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  Speaker 1: where is God, my maker, who gives songs in the night,
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  Speaker 1: who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: He does not answer when people cry out because of
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  Speaker 1: the arrogance of the wicked. In chapter thirty six, Elihu continues,
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  Speaker 1: bear with me a little longer, and I will show
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  Speaker 1: you that there is more to be said in God's defense.
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  Speaker 1: I get my knowledge from Afar. I will ascribe justice
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  Speaker 1: to my maker. Be assured that my words are not false.
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  Speaker 1: One who has perfect knowledge is with you. He describes
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  Speaker 1: God's care for the righteous. God is mighty, but does
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  Speaker 1: not despise anyone. He is mighty and firm in his purpose.
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  Speaker 1: He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the
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  Speaker 1: afflicted their rights. He does not take his eyes off
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  Speaker 1: the righteous. He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
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  Speaker 1: Ili who explains how suffering can teach. But if people
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  Speaker 1: are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction,
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  Speaker 1: he tells them what they have done, that they have
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  Speaker 1: sinned arrogantly. He makes them listen to correction and commands
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  Speaker 1: them to repent of their evil. He warns job, beware
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  Speaker 1: that no one entices you by riches. Do not let
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  Speaker 1: a large bribe turn you aside. Would your wealth or
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  Speaker 1: even all your mighty efforts, sustain you through distress. Do
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  Speaker 1: not long for the night when people are taken away
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  Speaker 1: from their homes. Eli, who praises God's power. How great
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  Speaker 1: is God? Beyond our understanding? The number of his years
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  Speaker 1: is past finding out. He draws up the drops of water,
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  Speaker 1: which distillers rain from the mist. The clouds pour down
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  Speaker 1: their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind. In chapter
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven, Eli, who continue speaking about natural wonders. At this,
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  Speaker 1: my heart pounds and leaps from its place. Listen, listen
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  Speaker 1: to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that
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  Speaker 1: comes from his mouth. He unleashes his lightning beneath the
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  Speaker 1: whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: After that comes the sound of his roar. He thunders
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  Speaker 1: with his majestic voice. He describes winter. He says, to
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  Speaker 1: the snow fall on the earth, and to the rain,
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  Speaker 1: be am mighty downpour, so that all men He has
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  Speaker 1: made may know his work. He stops everyone from working.
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  Speaker 1: The animals retreat to their dens and remain in their lairs.
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  Speaker 1: Eli who speaks of storms and God's control over the weather.
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  Speaker 1: The storm comes from his chamber, and cold from the
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  Speaker 1: driving winds. By the breath of God, ice is given
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  Speaker 1: and the broad waters are frozen. He loads the clouds
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  Speaker 1: with moisture. He scatters his lightning through them. They swirl about,
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  Speaker 1: turning at his direction, to do whatever he commands them.
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  Speaker 1: On the face of the earth. He concludes by speaking
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  Speaker 1: of God's purposes. He brings it about for punishment, or
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  Speaker 1: for watering his land, or to show his love. Elly
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  Speaker 1: who challenges job, listen to this job, stop and consider
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  Speaker 1: God's wonders? Do you know how God controls the clouds
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  Speaker 1: and makes his lightning flash? Do you know so how
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  Speaker 1: the clouds hang poised? Those wonders of him who has
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  Speaker 1: perfect knowledge? He continues, You whose clothes get hot when
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  Speaker 1: the land lies still beneath the south wind? Can you
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  Speaker 1: help him spread out the skies hard as a mirror
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  Speaker 1: of cast bronze. Elihu finishes his speech by preparing Job
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  Speaker 1: to encounter God. We cannot draw up our case because
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  Speaker 1: of our darkness. Should he be told that I want
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  Speaker 1: to speak? Would anyone ask to be swallowed up? Now?
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  Speaker 1: No one can look at the sun bright as it
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  Speaker 1: is in the skies after the wind has swept them
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  Speaker 1: clean out of the north. He comes in golden splendor.
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  Speaker 1: God comes in awesome majesty. The Almighty is beyond our
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  Speaker 1: reach and exalted in power. In his justice and great righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: He does not oppress. Therefore men fear him. He does
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  Speaker 1: not regard those who think they are wise. In chapter
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight, God himself enters the debate. Then the law
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  Speaker 1: Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind. This marks the
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  Speaker 1: turning point of the book. God finally speaks the deep
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  Speaker 1: divine response begins with a piercing question, who is this
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  Speaker 1: that obscures my counsel with words without knowledge? Brace yourself
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  Speaker 1: like a man. I will question you, and you shall
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  Speaker 1: answer me. God takes Job back to creation. Where were
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  Speaker 1: you when I laid the foundations of the earth. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me if you understand who marked off its dimensions? Surely
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  Speaker 1: you know who stretched a measuring line across it on
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  Speaker 1: what were its footing set? Or who laid its corner stone?
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  Speaker 1: While the morning stars sang together and all the angels
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  Speaker 1: shouted for joy, The Lord questions Job about the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst
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  Speaker 1: forth from the womb? When I made the clouds its
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  Speaker 1: garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, When I fixed
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  Speaker 1: limits for it and set its doors and bars in place?
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  Speaker 1: When I said this far you may come, and no
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  Speaker 1: farther here is where your proud waves halt. God questions
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  Speaker 1: Job's control of the day. Have you ever given orders
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  Speaker 1: to the morning or shown the dawn its place that
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  Speaker 1: it might take the earth by the edges and shake
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  Speaker 1: the wicked out of it. The earth takes shape like
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  Speaker 1: clay under a seal. Its features stand out like those
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  Speaker 1: of a garment. The Lord continues with the depths. Have
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  Speaker 1: you journeyed to the springs of the sea, or walked
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  Speaker 1: in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of
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  Speaker 1: death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates
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  Speaker 1: of the deepest darkness? Have you comprehended the vast expanses
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: of the earth? Tell me if you know all this?
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  Speaker 1: God challenges Job's knowledge of natural phenomena. What is the
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  Speaker 1: way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?
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  Speaker 1: Can you take them to their places? Do you know
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  Speaker 1: the paths to their dwellings? Surely you know, for you
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  Speaker 1: were already born. You have lived so many years. He
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  Speaker 1: asks about snow and rain. Have you entered the storehouses
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  Speaker 1: of the snow? Or seen the storehouses of the hail,
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  Speaker 1: which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: war and battle? What is the way to the place
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  Speaker 1: where the lightning is dispersed or the place where the
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  Speaker 1: east winds are scattered over the earth? Who cuts a
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  Speaker 1: channel for the torrents of rain and a path for
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  Speaker 1: the thunder? Storm to water a land where no one lives,
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  Speaker 1: an uninhabited desert, to satisfy a desolate waste land and
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  Speaker 1: make it sprout with grass. God asks about the skies.
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  Speaker 1: Does the rain have a father who gives birth to
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  Speaker 1: the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice?
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens? When
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  Speaker 1: the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of
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  Speaker 1: the deep is frozen. He questions Job's knowledge of the stars.
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  Speaker 1: Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you
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  Speaker 1: loosen Orion's bell? Can you bring forth the constellations in
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: their seasons? Or lead out the bear with its cubs?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you
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  Speaker 1: set up God's dominion over the earth? In chapter thirty nine,
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  Speaker 1: God continues with questions about the animal kingdom. Do you
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  Speaker 1: hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger
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  Speaker 1: of the lions when they crouch in their dens or
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  Speaker 1: lie in wait in a thicket? Who provides food for
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  Speaker 1: the raven when its young cry out to God and
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  Speaker 1: wander about for lack of food. He speaks of mountain goats.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know when the mountain goats give birth. Do
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  Speaker 1: you watch when the dough bears her fawn? Do you
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  Speaker 1: count the months u till they bear? Do you know
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  Speaker 1: the time they give birth? God mentions the wild donkey.
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  Speaker 1: Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes?
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  Speaker 1: I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt
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  Speaker 1: flats as its habitat. It laughs at the commotion in
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  Speaker 1: the town. It does not hear a driver's shout. He
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  Speaker 1: questions Job about the wild ox. Will the wild ox
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  Speaker 1: consent to serve you? Will it stay by your mangeer
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  Speaker 1: at night? Can you hold it to the furrow with
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  Speaker 1: a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you? Can
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  Speaker 1: you rely on its great strength? Will you leave your
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  Speaker 1: heavy work to it? Can you trust it to haul
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  Speaker 1: in your grain and bring it to your threshing flaw?
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: God speaks of the ostrich. The wings of the ostrich
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  Speaker 1: flap joyfully. But are they the pinions and plumage of love.
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  Speaker 1: She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them
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  Speaker 1: warm in the sand, unmindful that a foot may crush them,
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  Speaker 1: that some wild animal may trample them. She treats her
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  Speaker 1: young harshly, as if they were not hers. She cares
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  Speaker 1: not that her labor was in vain, for God did
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  Speaker 1: not endow her with wisdom or give her a share
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: of good sense. Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,
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  Speaker 1: she laughs at horse and rider. God speaks of the horse.
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  Speaker 1: Do you give the horse its strength? Or clothe its
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  Speaker 1: neck with a flowing mane? Do you make it leap
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  Speaker 1: like a locust striking terror? With its proud snorting? It
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  Speaker 1: paws fiercely in the valley and rejoices in its strength.
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  Speaker 1: It charges into the fray. It laughs at fear, afraid
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  Speaker 1: of nothing, It does not shy away from the sword.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord speaks of the hawk and the eagle. Does
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  Speaker 1: the hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread its
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  Speaker 1: wings toward the south? Does the eagle soar at your command?
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  Speaker 1: And build its nest on high It dwells on the
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  Speaker 1: cliffs and spends the night there. A rocky crag is
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  Speaker 1: its stronghold. From there it looks for food. Its eyes
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  Speaker 1: detect it from afar. Its young ones feast on blood.
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  Speaker 1: And where the slain are there it is in chapter
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  Speaker 1: forty God directly challenges job. The Lord said to Job,
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  Speaker 1: will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him.
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  Speaker 1: Let him who accuses God answer him. Then Job replied
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord, I am unworthy. How can I reply
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  Speaker 1: to you? I put my hand over my mouth. I
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: spoke once, but I have no answer. Twice, but I
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  Speaker 1: will say no more. Job's answer, though brief, is rich
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  Speaker 1: in humility. Then Job replied to the Lord, I am unworthy?
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  Speaker 1: How can I reply to you? I put my hand
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  Speaker 1: over my mouth. I spoke once, but I have no answer. Twice,
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  Speaker 1: but I will say no more. This is a pivotal
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  Speaker 1: moment for Job, before the majesty of the divine. He
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  Speaker 1: acknowledges his smallness. After lengthy speeches and self defense, Job
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  Speaker 1: now realizes how limited his words have been. Putting his
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  Speaker 1: hand over his mouth is a gesture of reverence and silence.
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  Speaker 1: He understands he had spoken of things he did not
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  Speaker 1: fully comprehend. God continues speaking to Job in the rest
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: of chapter forty. Then the Lord spoke to Job out
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  Speaker 1: of the storm, brace yourself like a man. I will
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  Speaker 1: question you, and you shall answer me. Would you discredit
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  Speaker 1: my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself? Do
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  Speaker 1: you have an arm like God's? And can your voice
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  Speaker 1: thunder like his Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,
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  Speaker 1: and clothe yourself in honor and majesty. Unleash the fury
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  Speaker 1: of your wrath. Look at all who are proud, and
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  Speaker 1: bring them low. Look at all who are proud, and
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  Speaker 1: humble them. Crush the wicked where they stand, Bury them
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  Speaker 1: all in the dust together, shroud their faces in the grave.
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  Speaker 1: Then I myself will admit to you that your own
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  Speaker 1: right hand can save you. The Lord then speaks of
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  Speaker 1: a mighty creature, Behemeth. Look at behemoth, which I made
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  Speaker 1: along with you, and which feeds on grass like an ox.
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  Speaker 1: What strength it has in its loins, What power in
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  Speaker 1: the muscles of its belly. Its tail sways like a cedar.
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  Speaker 1: The sinews of its thighs are tightly knit. Its bones
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  Speaker 1: are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.
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  Speaker 1: It ranks first among the works of God, Yet its
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: maker can approach it with his sword. God describes this
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  Speaker 1: creature's habitat the hills bring it their produce, and all
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  Speaker 1: the wild animals play near by under the lotus plants.
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  Speaker 1: It lies hidden among the reeds in the marsh. The
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  Speaker 1: lotuses conceal it in their shadow, the poplars by the
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  Speaker 1: stream surround it. A raging river does not alarm it.
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  Speaker 1: It is secure, though the Jordan should surge against its mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Can any one capture it by the eyes? Or trap
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  Speaker 1: it and pierce its nose? In chapter forty one, God
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  Speaker 1: speaks of another fearsome creature, Leviathan. Can you pull in
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: Leviathan with a fish hook? Or tie down its tongue
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  Speaker 1: with a rope? Can you put a cord through its nose?
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  Speaker 1: Or pierce its jaw with a hook? Will it keep
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  Speaker 1: begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with
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  Speaker 1: gentle words? Will it make an agreement with you for
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  Speaker 1: you to take it as your slave for life? Can
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  Speaker 1: you make a pet of it like a bird, or
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  Speaker 1: put it on a leash for the young women in
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  Speaker 1: your house? God continues describing the impossibility of subduing this creature.
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  Speaker 1: Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up
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  Speaker 1: among the merchants? Can you fill its hide with harpoons
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  Speaker 1: or its head with fishing spears? If you lay a
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  Speaker 1: hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never
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  Speaker 1: do it again. Any hope of subduing it is false.
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  Speaker 1: The mere sight of it is overpowering. No one is
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  Speaker 1: fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to
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  Speaker 1: stand against me? The Lord emphasizes Leviathan's might. Who has
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: a claim against me? That I must pay? Everything under
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  Speaker 1: heaven belongs to me? I will not fail to speak
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  Speaker 1: of Leviathan's limbs, its strength, and its graceful form. Who
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  Speaker 1: can strip off its out coat? Who can penetrate its
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: double coat of armor? Who dares open the doors of
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  Speaker 1: its mouth? Ringed with fearsome teeth? God continues the description.
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  Speaker 1: Its back has rows of shields tightly joined together. Each
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  Speaker 1: is so close to the next that no air can
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  Speaker 1: pass between them. They are bound to one another. They
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  Speaker 1: cling together and cannot be separated. Its snorting throes out
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  Speaker 1: flashes of light. Its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
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  Speaker 1: Flames pour from its mouth, sparks of fire shoot out.
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  Speaker 1: The strength of Leviathan is unmatched. Strength resides in its neck.
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  Speaker 1: Terror dances before it. The folds of its flesh are
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  Speaker 1: tightly joined. They are firm and immovable. Its chest is
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  Speaker 1: hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. When it
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  Speaker 1: rises up, the mighty are terrified. They retreat before its
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  Speaker 1: crashing blows. Leviathan is impenetrable. The sword that reaches it
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  Speaker 1: has no effect, nor does the spear, or the dart
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  Speaker 1: or the javelin iron. It treats like straw, and bronze
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  Speaker 1: like rotten wood. Arrows do not make it flee. Slingstones
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  Speaker 1: are like chaff to it. A club feels like a
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  Speaker 1: piece of straw, and it laughs at the swish of
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  Speaker 1: the lance. God concludes his description. Its underside is covered
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  Speaker 1: with jagged shards, leaving a trail in the mud like
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  Speaker 1: a threshing sledge. It makes the depths churn like a
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  Speaker 1: boiling caldron. It stirs up the sea like a pot
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  Speaker 1: of ointment. Behind it, it leaves a glistening wake. One
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  Speaker 1: would think the deep had white air. Nothing on Earth
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  Speaker 1: is its equal. A creature without fear, it looks down
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  Speaker 1: on all that are proud. It is king over all
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  Speaker 1: who are arrogant. Through the descriptions of Behemoth and Leviathan,
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  Speaker 1: God reveals to Job his immense power as creator. If
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  Speaker 1: Job cannot stand against these fearsome creatures, how could he
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  Speaker 1: possibly challenge the authority of the one who made them.
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  Speaker 1: God's questions show Job that his knowledge and power are
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  Speaker 1: infinitely small compared to the Lord's In chapter forty two,
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  Speaker 1: Job finally understands. His response reveals a deep transformation. Then
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  Speaker 1: Job replied to the Lord, I know that you can
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  Speaker 1: do all things. No purpose of yours can be thwarted.
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  Speaker 1: Job acknowledges his limitations. You asked, who is this that
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  Speaker 1: obscures my counsel without knowledge? Surely I spoke of things
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  Speaker 1: I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
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  Speaker 1: He continues, showing how his understanding has changed. You said,
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  Speaker 1: listen now, and I will speak. I will question you,
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  Speaker 1: and you shall answer me. My ears had heard of you,
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  Speaker 1: but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise
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  Speaker 1: myself and repent in dust and ashes. This is the
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  Speaker 1: central trans of the book. Job never receives direct answers
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  Speaker 1: to his questions about suffering. Instead, he gains something far
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  Speaker 1: more valuable, a personal encounter with God. The difference between
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  Speaker 1: hearing about and seeing is immense. Job moves from a
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  Speaker 1: theoretical knowledge of God to a real, lived experience of
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  Speaker 1: his presence that changed everything for him. Job's repentance isn't
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  Speaker 1: about a specific sin, but rather his presumptuous attitude in
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  Speaker 1: questioning God's governance. Now he realizes he spoke of things
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  Speaker 1: beyond his understanding. His reaction isn't one of fear or defeat,
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  Speaker 1: but one of awe and reverence in light of the
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  Speaker 1: divine greatness he now clearly perceives. After this exchange between
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  Speaker 1: God and Job, the Lord turns to Job's three friends.
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  Speaker 1: After the Lord had said these things to Job, he
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  Speaker 1: said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am angry with you
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  Speaker 1: and your two friends because you have not spoken the
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  Speaker 1: truth about me as my servant Job has. God commands
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  Speaker 1: a sacrificial offering. Now take seven bulls and seven rams
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  Speaker 1: and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt
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  Speaker 1: offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you,
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  Speaker 1: and I will accept his prayer and not deal with
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  Speaker 1: you according to your folly. You have not spoken the
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  Speaker 1: truth about me, as my servant Job has. The friends obey,
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  Speaker 1: so Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the shoe height, and so
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  Speaker 1: far the Namethite did what the Lord told them, and
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  Speaker 1: the Lord accepted Job's prayer. Then everything changes for Job.
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  Speaker 1: After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored
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  Speaker 1: his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he
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  Speaker 1: had before. The restoration is complete. All his brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone who had known him before came and ate
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  Speaker 1: with him in his house. They comforted and consoled Hi
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  Speaker 1: over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him,
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  Speaker 1: and each one gave him a piece of silver and
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  Speaker 1: a gold ring. Job ends up with far more than
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  Speaker 1: he lost. The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's
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  Speaker 1: life more than the former. He had fourteen thousand sheep,
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  Speaker 1: six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a
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  Speaker 1: thousand donkeys. His family is restored as well, and he
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  Speaker 1: also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter
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  Speaker 1: he named Jemima, the second Keziah, and the third Karen.
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  Speaker 1: Happuch nowhere in all the land where there found women
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  Speaker 1: as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them
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  Speaker 1: an inheritance along with their brothers. The book ends with
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  Speaker 1: a note on Job's long life. After this, Job lived
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty years. He saw his children and
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  Speaker 1: their children to the fourth generation, and so Job died
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  Speaker 1: old and full of years. Job's restoration doesn't erase his
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  Speaker 1: former pain, but it makes it clear that suffering wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the final word in his story. He not only recovered
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  Speaker 1: what he had lost, but was blessed even more. His
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  Speaker 1: daughters receiving an inheritance alongside their brothers, something uncommon at
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  Speaker 1: the time, points to a special blessing. But most importantly,
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  Speaker 1: Job emerged from his trial with a deeper relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: He discovered that even when we don't understand God's ways,
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  Speaker 1: we can still trust in his wisdom and love. His
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  Speaker 1: story continues to inspire those facing unexplained suffering, proving that
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  Speaker 1: faith can survive, even thrive, through life's harshest storms. The
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  Speaker 1: story of Job teaches us about faith during hard times.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds us that we may not always understand the
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  Speaker 1: reason for our trials, but God is present even in
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  Speaker 1: our pain. As we've seen, Job lost everything, was abandoned
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  Speaker 1: by nil everyone, and suffered physically, Yet he held on
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  Speaker 1: to his integrity. In the end, he didn't just get
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  Speaker 1: back what he had lost, he gained something far greater,
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  Speaker 1: a personal encounter with God that changed his life. If
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  Speaker 1: you're going through a difficult time right now, remember this.
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  Speaker 1: Like Job, you're not alone in your suffering. God sees
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  Speaker 1: your pain and is with you, even when he seems
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  Speaker 1: far away. I hope this story touched your heart the
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