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We are in the book of Job, walking you through a few chapters at a time, this book.

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Okay, Scott, today we're in Job 10 through 12, and we're continuing in this cycle of speeches

that we've seen. What do we see in today's chapters?

So yesterday we started to look at Job's response to that second friend, Bill Dad.

And we talked about how in chapter 9, Job just kind of felt stuck.

And that gives away to this lament we find in today's chapters in chapter 10,

where he just kind of continues, like he did in chapter 3, to despair that he was ever even born.

And he wonders why God's been pursuing him.

Versus like verses 20 stand out to me where he pleased that God would, he says,

leave me alone so I can smile a little before I go to a land of darkness and gloom never

to return.

So in other words, can you just give me a moment's peace before you kill me, please?

And then finally we get the third friend Zofar, who finally joins the conversation.

Okay, so we've met Job's first two friends, Elfaz and Bildad, and they've not had the most

helpful advice. Is Zofar any different here?

You know, it's interesting because the second part of a speech, there's a lot of really

great stuff, like powerful verses, if you read them in isolation. And, you know, just kind of a

sidebar. I'm always a little hesitant to use verses from Job as proof text because they're not,

those words are not always coming from the most reliable of sources.

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