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Hey, you are listening to A Year in the Bible With Daily Grace. We're walking through the Book of Job today. We're gonna Talk through chapters 13 through 15. You know, Scott, in every episode we share our takeaways, but we would love to hear from listeners their takeaways too. So leave us a review, Leave us a comment wherever you're listening or watching. We wanna know what you're taking away from the Book of Job. Okay, so you mentioned it yesterday. So, Scott, that we read chapter 12 yesterday, but you were going to tie it into today's reading, so you left us on a huge cliffhanger. We've all been waiting. We can't wait to hear what you're going to say. What's going on in these chapters and how does chapter 12 tie in?
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Wow. Thanks for all that pressure. Yeah. So, yeah, 12 through 14 is Job's response to Zophar's first speech. And I know Job is not a funny book, but the way Job starts the speech is really funny to me because it's just dripping with sorrow sarcasm. So he says, no doubt, you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. And then verse three, he's like, guys, I know all this stuff. Stop pretending like we're not equals here. And then for all of chapter 12 into 13, he really takes his friends to task. He says they're not wiser than he, Job, is. He calls them worthless healers. In 13 4, he says, your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash. Your defenses are made of clay. And then my favorite, if only you would shut up and let that be your wisdom. Like, way to go, Joe.
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A
Wow. He just. He laid it all out there with that one.
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I feel like, good for you, Job. And then kind of in the rest of Job's response, you know, 13 into 14, he addresses God and he pleads with God to. To reveal what he has against Job. Like, what is the problem here? Why am I going through what I am? And he asks in 1323, how many iniquities and sins have I committed? Reveal to me my transgressions and my sins. Sins. And then he just kind of continues to reflect on the fleeting nature of life and pleads for just a moment of relief in his short time in this world.
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Yeah. And so with that, we've completed the first cycle of speeches that we talked about, right?
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B
Yeah, that's right. One cycle down, two more to go.
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One cycle down, two more to go. All right.
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B
Yeah. So we start the next one with Eliphaz. So all three Friends have spoken. Job has given his response. So with 15, we could come back to Eliphaz, who was the first friend to speak. And these speeches are going to start getting shorter from here on out. A little bit harsher as well. They've some have been pleasant by comparison with what's coming. And really this whole second cycle revolves around the wicked and specifically what happens to the wicked.
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A
Okay, so we're starting the second cycle. We're starting with Eliphaz. What does Eliphaz have to say to Job this time around?
- [02:51]
B
So he starts out by accusing Job of having just empty wisdom. And then he gets very, very defensive. He's like, hey, we're wise too. And plus, we have all the wisdom of old wise people on our side. His basic argument here is, hey, the wicked suffer. Job, you're suffering, therefore Job, you have sinned. It's just case closed. It's that simple. And if we're honest, we've talked about this already. Shall we? That sort of makes sense to us too. I think we can often fall into the trap of assuming that if you reject God, things will go bad. If you accept him, things will go well. And ultimately, in the biggest viewpoint vantage point possible, that is true. But in this world for now, life isn't nearly that neat and tidy. Oftentimes, the wicked do prosper, and often at the expense of the righteous. And that's something I really appreciate about Job and just the wisdom books in general, is that there's such a raw acknowledgement of the injustices of life. There's this acknowledgement that a lot of times the wicked prosper, they're doing great, and the people who are loving the Lord and seeking to follow him are suffering horribly and often asked, where is God in the midst of this? And of course, again, Jesus is the best demonstration of this dynamic here. The only truly perfect sinless person who has walked this earth, yet he was unjustly executed as a criminal. And those who watched this happened as he was hanging on the cross assumed that if God were pleased with Jesus, he wouldn't be on that cross in the first place. Uh, but the opposite was true. The opposite was true. And again, we said this before, but we just cannot use our circumstances to gauge how God sees us at all.
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Yeah, absolutely. Um, I think as I was reading today's chapters, I'm looking through here, and I'm. I'm looking for Christ connections as, as we do. And one takeaway that I am walking away with is job 14, 14, which here job says, when a person dies will he come back life? If so, I would wait all the days of my struggle until my relief comes. And he's. He's kind of wondering, like, is there relief beyond this life? And he does not have the knowledge, the perspective that we have on this side of Christ and the cross, but we see him longing basically for resurrection. And so, again, we've said this before in Job, but we see him longing for something that we can be grateful that we have in Christ, which is resurrection. There is relief. And you've said this life is not neat and tidy, yet we do know that there is total relief, total peace for us in eternity with Christ. And what a gift it is to know that when we walk through suffering. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you so much, Scott, for breaking down these chapters. We're gonna continue our little conversation with Job and his friends tomorrow. This Memorial Day weekend, give yourself the gift of spiritual refreshment. The Daily Grace Coat is celebrating with our annual Memorial Day sale. For a limited time, you can shop hundreds of your favorite items, including select studies and books marked down by up to 50% off. And we have our best sellers, like Flourishing in Motherhood, the Daily Grace Book, and more, all on sale. Don't miss out on these incredible clearance deals. The Memorial Day sale is only on this weekend. Click now and shop@thedailygraceco.com.