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Job chapter 35, verse 16.

Job opens his mouth and empty talk.

He multiplies words without knowledge.

This is a really interesting verse as Elihu is speaking to Job and talking about how

Job is multiplying his words with empty or meaningless talk. But it's interesting.

Elihu's been speaking for over 100 verses at this point, and he's not even let Job talk.

So he's starting to sound a lot like Job's other three miserable friends.

Basically, criticizing Job with a lot of words for the way Job is multiplying his words without knowledge.

At the same time, this verse is a good reminder to all of us, whether we are in Job's shoes

walking through suffering or whether we are alongside others who are walking through suffering

to be really careful and wise and humble with our words to be careful not to open our mouths in empty talk and multiply words without knowledge.

In other words, to be very careful not to speak as if we have it all figured out when part of

God's purpose in our suffering is to help us see that we don't have

it all figured out and we don't see everything, that we don't know everything, and whether

we're walking through suffering or trying to help others, or trying to help others

figure out what God is doing in suffering, we need to be really, really careful with our mouths.

Yes, before God, to be honest before him, with our questions, with our wrestling, with our struggling at the same time

to do that with humility, with trust that God sees things we don't see and knows things we don't

know and that he loves us. So we come to him like children before our father, our heavenly father, not saying,

we've got it all figured out. Like I think about my nine-year-old coming to me and saying,

I've got it all figured out. And you're doing this and you're doing that. And I'd be sitting

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