hardships
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We are starting the third round of speeches by Job’s friends with Job’s responses. The sign of which path, righteousness or wickedness, a person is on is not the hardship they face, but the choices they make.
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So far we have covered the narrative prologue that tells about Job’s sudden hardship and his friend’s journey to comfort him. Job give a poetic lament over his pain and calamity. Then each of Jobs friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite each give a speech and Job replies to each.
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We now start the second round of peaches by Job’s friends. The tricky thing about Jon’s friends again is that they are not completely wrong. Much of what they say is true about how the world works. The main place in which they are wrong is that they assume all suffering is caused by the
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This whole speech is Job’s response to Eliphaz. It is quite long right after he has just been called long-winded. At this point, I have often stopped reading the poetry section of this book and have skipped ahead to the narrative section to find out what happens to Job. This time, I am going to
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In the last chapter of Job, we learned that he was a godly man, but lost everything to test his faith in God. He passed the test, but the story is not over. We now dive into chapter 2. 1) Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before
