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 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 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.

Today we met Job's third friend so far.

We've already heard from Elifaz and Bill Dad 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 Zofar 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

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