Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

We continued to read Job's story today. He's just lost everything except his life, and today

he had to listen to bad advice from the second of his three friends. Yesterday we heard from Elifaz, today we heard from Bilad. But first, we heard Job's

response to Elifaz. He defends himself. He's despairing, but he doesn't curse God. He knows this

pain isn't the result of sinful actions. He knows his friends were wrong.

One of the questions counselors train you to ask yourself in relational difficulty is,

where's my sin in this situation? What can I own from this situation? And that's an important question to ask, especially because we're often blind to our own sin and what we've contributed to the

scenario. but there

are times when life is just hard, or when you've just been sin against, and your troubles are not

the result of something you contributed.

We would never tell someone who's been raped or physically abused to think about what they did

to deserve that or cause that.

It's not always true that our circumstances and our problems

are the result of our choices. Sometimes they're the result of a fallen world. Sometimes they're

the result of other people's sinful choices. Much like with Elifaz, Bilad gave bad counsel.

He told Job that he needed to repent. But again, Chapter

1 told us that Job was blameless and upright and that these problems actually occurred because

of his uprightness, not as the result of sin. Job's friends were attacking him in the midst of his

grief. But I believe they really thought they were on the right

track. They really thought they were helping him, and that if they could just convince him to

repent, all his troubles would subside. Stay tuned to see how that plays out. Job replied to

Bildad with a lot of truth about God. In 915, Job mentioned that he would appeal for mercy to his accuser. And I don't believe this

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