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

We're in the book of Job for nine more days. We're already 25% of the way through it.

This book can be challenging for some people. Maybe it tries their patience or just feels

like a real downer. Interestingly though, a lot of people say that Job is their favorite

book of the Bible, but most of them don't feel that way until they've read it all the way through.

So if I may, let me offer you a challenge that one of our team members likes to present

to people. She says, don't quit in Job. You can quit before a job or you can quit after

Job, but don't quit in Job. I love that advice and obviously it's too late for you to quit

before a job, so you're stuck with us. This book ends with praise and triumph. So be sure

to stick around for the party. We're getting closer to it every day. And I want to say a big

thanks to our staff member, Kelly Summers for laying out that challenge for us all.

Today we met Job's third friend, so far. We've already heard from Elifaz and Buildad

who gave their reasons they thought were responsible for Job's life falling apart. The hard part

about listening to these guys is that sometimes they do say things that are true. It's not

like it's all wrong. For example, when so far is talking about God in 11, 6, he says,

he exacts less of you than your guilt deserves. First of all, this is generally true of all

of us, not just Job. We talked about this yesterday. God is merciful. We all deserve

death. Yet he lets us live. That's his mercy. And the fact that we get to live on God's

earth and breathe God's air and eat God's food that's so much more than we deserve. That's

his grace. He does exact less of us than our guilt deserves. So far said a lot of true

things about God. It was when he started drawing conclusions about Job that things took

a left turn. And we get to hear Job's reply where he started getting sarcastic with his

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