Day 16: The Suffering of Job (2023)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike highlights the mysterious role suffering in Job's life as we continue journeying through Genesis 31-32, Job 21-22, and Proverbs 3:9-12.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in your podcast where we encounter |
| 0:08.3 | God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. |
| 0:11.3 | The Bible in your podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:16.7 | Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we will read all the way from Genesis through |
| 0:19.9 | Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story |
| 0:25.5 | today. This is day 16. And we are continuing with our book of Genesis, our book of Job, |
| 0:31.5 | of Proverbs, we're hitting all these massive, massive books in the day 16. So that means |
| 0:35.8 | we're reading Genesis chapter 31 and chapter 32, continuing our story with Jacob and |
| 0:40.3 | Laban and some other people are going to be reintroduced into Esau. We're also reading |
| 0:44.1 | Job chapter 21 and chapter 22 and Proverbs 3 verses 9 through 12. The Bible translation |
| 0:50.2 | that I am reading from is the revised standard version Catholic edition. And I'm using the |
| 0:55.2 | great adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to be able to follow along, not just |
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| 1:24.5 | Catholic Bible, all one word, no spaces to the number three three seven seven seven. As |
| 1:29.3 | I said, we are reading today, day 16 from chapter 31 and 32, Job 21 and 22 and Proverbs |
| 1:36.5 | three nine through 12. Let's get started. Genesis chapter 31 and 32. Now Jacob heard that |
| 1:47.4 | the sons of Laban were saying, Jacob has taken all that was our fathers and from what |
| 1:51.6 | was our fathers he has gained all his wealth. And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him |
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