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

Finally, God speaks.

I don't know if you read the headings in your Bible or not, but when I saw the heading

of chapter 38 that said, the Lord answers Job, I was so relieved.

This is who I wanted to hear speak, not Job's friends.

You probably felt the same way.

And if so, we can rest assured that Job definitely wanted to hear God speak even more than we

did.

I hardly want to touch a recap on these chapters honestly.

I kind of just want to enjoy them, but I will point out a few things in God's reply

to Job.

First of all, you may have noticed that when God responds to Job, the word Lord is in all

caps, and you may remember that what we learned about the word Lord in all caps in day one,

when we read Genesis 1 through 3, was that that is God's personal name, Yahweh, Jehovah.

So right out of the gate here, we see that God is being very personal with Job.

This flies in the face of what Job's friends said would happen next.

They said Job would continue to get God's silence and even more harsh consequences if

he didn't repent.

Well, Job didn't repent, but here God is speaking to him directly, intimately.

When God first starts speaking to Job, you might have noticed it had nothing to do with

Job's problems.

He didn't answer any of his questions.

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