The Bible Study Podcast, episode 38. Today the Bible Study podcast continues to look at why bad things happen to good people with an episode I'm titling Job gets answers, sort of.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. This is part five of the series on why bad things happen to good people. And in this episode, I'll be ending our look at the book of Job. We still have more to go after this, but we'll at least wrap up what Job gets to learn about the whole experience.

If you may recall from the previous episodes,

Job was a good man who had a lot of bad things happened to him all of the sudden,

and the reason they happened was that up in heaven God and Satan had a conversation,

and Satan said the only reason why Job was good was that God was protecting him.

And if he took his protection away from him, if he took the fence down that he had put around him, the hedge,

then certainly Job would curse the name of God.

So Satan was allowed to take at first both his possessions and his children, and then second, his health.

God limited what Satan could do.

Job didn't curse God. He did curse the day he was born, and then he had to endure chapters and chapters of his friends telling him, you must have done something very, very bad.

And in the response to that, Job responded like he did in chapter 31, where he says,

I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl, for what is man's lot from God above,

his heritage from the Almighty unhigh.

Is it not ruin for the wicked disaster for those who do wrong?

Does he not see my ways and count my every step?

If I have walked in

falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit, let God weigh in honest scales, and he will know that I

am blameless. If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes,

or my hands have been defiled, then may others eat what I have sown and may my

crops be uprooted. And he goes on like that for the rest of the chapter. But finally in chapter

32 we get a voice of wisdom. And this is the fourth of his friends, Elihu. And he is the youngest of

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