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Hey, you are listening to A Year in the Bible With Daily Grace. We are in the book of Job. We're gonna be talking about chapters 25 through 27 today. We hope breaking down this book has been helpful. If you learned something today, if you're encouraged today, leave a review, leave a comment, let us know. It's really encouraging for us to get that feedback from y'. All. Okay, Scott, yesterday we mentioned that we're going to finish up the third cycle of speeches today. So can you walk us through the ending of this cycle?
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Yeah. So just simply, we've got one final speech from Bildad, response from Job, and then some final words from Job. And that kind of wraps up this section of dialogues between Job and his three friends.
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Okay, you said a speech from Bildad, but reading through this is much shorter than many of the other speeches we've seen.
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B
Yeah, it's. It's very, very brief. Just a few verses. And again, there's. What do you say at this point that hasn't been said a hundred times already? It feels like. So he brings up a question that's already been mentioned before, like, you know, how can a human be justified before God? And then he just. He basically puts Job in his place. He's like, God's awesome. You're small, so shut up. Job and Bildad again. And the friends are all basically assuming that when it comes to Job situation, either God is in the wrong or Job is. It's this, God can't be in the wrong. Clearly, Job must be in the wrong. So Job did something wrong. You know, their conventional wisdom, though, does not allow for a third possibility, which is that God's not in the wrong and that Job's suffering is not a response to wrongdoing on his part.
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Yeah, and I think we've said this multiple times, but I think we want life to be neat and tidy. Like, we want, you know, something to be wrong that caused the suffering. It has an explanation that makes sense to our finite human minds, but it's just not that. It's just not that neat and tidy.
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B
Right. And I love that the Bible is just brutally honest about that. I find that so comforting. And so, yeah, Job gives us reply. I love his sarcasm, how you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak. That's 26:1. He agrees God is powerful. But, you know, again, if he's so powerful, that must also mean there's things about him we just can't understand. And so the friends need to be careful. And then he gives his final reply in chapter 27 to the Friends. He calls them his enemies. They become his enemies. He refuses to give in and confess imaginary sins that he knows he hasn't committed. He clings to his innocence. And just like they've warned him about what happens to the wicked, so now he warns them about the same thing. So he turns the table. They're the. The ones, according to Job, who are in danger of suffering the fate of the wicked based on how they've been treating him and wrapping up the section. I've said this in an earlier episode. Again, it's so easy to slam these friends and, you know, criticize them from the comfort of our chairs. But like, we. We've been those friends at times. We've had people in our lives who've been going through hard times or some trials, and we often aren't comfortable with sitting that we. We want to offer an explanation. And it's frustrating when we can't find one. And so we might just start saying words that are unhelpful at best or harmful at worst sometimes. Shelby, it just is the case that people whom God is pleased with suffer greatly. It just is. And that's hard to reconcile. But I think it's our job to come alongside them, anchor them in God's truth, remind them that God's love for them is not measured by what they're going through. It's measured by what God Jesus went through on their behalf.
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Yeah, really great reminder. You know, I think as we wrap up this section with the speeches, something that I'm coming away with is that I'm so thankful for Christian community, and I have found comfort in that. But we see in this situation a time when there was really no comfort in community for Job. But I'm reminded that there's always comfort in Christ. There's always comfort in the Lord. There is always comfort in His Word. And so we ask the question, like, where does wisdom come from? It comes from the Lord. I think here I'm reminded, where does comfort come from? It comes from the Lord. And it's just an encouragement to me that when I truly need comfort that is unfailing, there's only one place to go to that, and it is straight to the Lord. So, okay, thank you so much for walking us through these chapters, Scott. We're going to keep walking through the book of Job. We'll be back tomorrow and begin in chapter 28.