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

Today we wrapped up the story of Job. For several chapters we've been reading about how

Job wants to have a conversation with God and yesterday God gave Job a lengthy response. Today we got to see Job's very brief reply where

he basically just said, I think I'm going to keep my mouth shut. So Job was humbled and didn't

want to speak, but God had asked Job to answer him and he didn't, so God pushes a little more.

In 48, God said, Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right? How often do we get

so frustrated by our circumstances that we carry a subtle undercurrent of belief that God is

cruel for letting that thing happen to us. If we really boil it down,

that's the same thing as calling God a bad unjust God. It's basically the belief that I would make a better

God, because if I were God, I would never have done that and he's

wrong and unjust for choosing to do things that way.

God points out Job's heart attitude that only became evident through his suffering.

In 4111 God also points out Job's entitlement.

Job glorified God, he made sacrifices, he honored God with his life and his actions,

but it seems like maybe he valued his own righteous

acts a little too highly, perhaps believing they put God in his debt.

The sins of pride and entitlement are disgusting, even when they're attached to our so-called good deeds.

And God is kind to purge those things from his children.

In Chapter 42, Job Repents.

Your version of the Bible may have shown him saying, I despise myself.

The Hebrew word used for despise here, which I won't try to pronounce because it actually

sounds like a curse word word is used elsewhere to mean to withdraw or to reject like I withdraw from myself.

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