Hey, this is Shelby and Scott. We are walking you through the book of Job. It's a joy for us to jump into God's Word every day. We hope that wherever you're listening, you're subscribed or following along so you'll miss an episode with us. Scott, today we're in Job. We're looking at

chapters four through six. Can you begin to break down these chapters for us? Yeah, so today's where

we start that cycle of speeches I mentioned yesterday where a friend will speak or will respond.

The other friend speaks, Joe responds on and on and on. So at the very end of chapter two, we were introduced to these three friends who show up

after Job lost everything.

We had Job's laments in chapter three, and then now they begin to respond to his lament.

And look, this is real easy to slam these guys.

I think we're used to doing that, and rightfully so.

But I do sympathize with them, at least in the sense that I often don't know what to say to people and suffering.

I feel like I have to say something.

And so I feel like what can often happen is I just put my foot in my mouth and I say things that are just either not helpful or maybe even harmful to my shame.

And so I'm sure we can all relate to that to some degree.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think part of what makes it so painful to read through these speeches is they at times are a mirror of times.

I've said harmful or unhelpful things to someone

who's suffering. Okay, so then with that in mind, we have this speech from Elifaz, and how does he

respond to Job's suffering? Yeah, so Elifaz just kind of articulates the conventional wisdom of the day,

which is that innocent people don't suffer. Now, he is pretty complimentary of Job early on,

which we should point out. He refers to Job as a pious man, but still his thinking is that no one is

truly innocent. And so when people do stray, God will correct them, he'll punish them.

In chapter 4, verse 8, he says, in my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.

And so, in other words, Job's not a terrible person, but he's done something wrong that has to

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