Today is the 24th day of August.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian. It is a joy to be here with you as we bring another one of the weeks that we get to spend together

to a close.

And we are in some pretty deep territory at this point in the scriptures we have entered into

into suffering and pain into sorrow into grief trauma, into depression, into all of the things that are really, really difficult

in our lives.

We're in the book of Job.

We're pretty well into it and we kind of know probably what's going on

so I don't know, so I don't know

recap everything.

We find ourselves in a conversation between Job who has literally been wiped out, deeply,

deeply broken, absolutely traumatized in every conceivable way.

He's having a conversation with his friends, they've come, they've sat with him.

And he's crying out in his own anguish and pain.

His friends are starting to get mad.

Because Job's saying some things that feel like he's speaking against God and things that feel like he's kind of justifying himself.

And they're just trying to, they're trying to comfort him, they're trying to be around him, they're trying to do the kinds of things that we would do.

Trying to tell him like, yeah, you shouldn't be talking like that because things happen for a reason and

Joe's just not really going for that at this point he's trying to figure out if he could come before God without fear. If God weren't so infinitely

more powerful, if he could actually just reason with God he has some things

he'd like to say.

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