Hey, this is Shelby and Scott. We are walking you through the book of Job. We hope that

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Yeah, it is, Scott.

It's been such a joy to walk through.

Okay, so yesterday we looked at Elifaz's second speech, and he told Job, hey, God brings suffering to the wicked, you're suffering, therefore you must have done something

wrong. You must be someone who has done something wicked. Today we're looking at Job 16 through

18, and we're going to see Job's response to that. So how does he respond? I'm going to guess

he isn't like, okay, you're right, you got me.

Like, the end of Job.

Yeah.

Yeah, Job's a little snarky here.

I love how he begins.

He says, you are all miserable comforters.

Is there no end to your empty words?

What provokes you that you continue testifying?

So these friends have clearly become a huge burden to Job, and he just wishes they would go away, leave him alone. Man, chapter 16, I'm just struck by the imagery, the poetry

here where Job is describing what it feels like God is doing to him. And he feels like God's

angry at him. He seems himself basically as being target practice for God's archers.

Which is an interesting image. He talks about sackcloth being sewn on his skin. It's not just putting sackcloth on, but like sewing it to his skin. So in other words, like he's just saying suffering and grief is his never ending life now. That's just what his life is. He feels attacked by God.

He has no idea why he's going through what he's going through. And then we get Bill Dad.

It speaks up, pipes up for his second speech. Okay. So Job is clearly expressing his deep misery here.

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