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Okay, Scott, yesterday we mentioned that we're going to finish up the third cycle of speeches today.

So can you walk us through the ending of this cycle? Yeah. So simply, we've got one final speech from Bildad, response from Job, and then some final words from Job. And that kind of wraps up this

section of dialogues between Job and his three friends. Okay, you said a speech from

Bildad, but reading through, this is much shorter than many of the other speeches who've seen. Yeah, it's very, very brief, just a few verses. And again, there's, what do you say at this point that hasn't said a hundred times already, it feels like. So he brings up a question that's already been mentioned before, like, you know, how can a human be justified before God? And then he just, he basically puts Job in his place. He's like, God's awesome, you're small. It's a shut up, Job. And Bill Dad, again, and the friends are all basically assuming that when it comes to Job's situation, either God is in the wrong or Job is. It says, God can't be in the wrong. Clearly, Job must be in the wrong. So Job did something wrong.

You know, their conventional wisdom, though, does not allow for a third possibility, which is that God's not the wrong, and that Job's suffering is not a response to wrongdoing on

his part.

Yeah, and I think we've said this multiple times, but I think we want life to be neat and tidy. Like we want, you know, something to be wrong that caused the suffering. It has an explanation that makes sense to our finite human minds, but it's just not that, it's just not that neat and tidy. Right. And I love that the Bible is just brutally honest about that. I find it so comforting. And so, Joe, Joe gives us reply. I love his sarcasm.

How you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak. That's 26-1. He agrees

God is powerful, but, you know, again, if he's so powerful, that must also mean there's things

about him. We just can't understand. And so the friends need to be careful. And then he gives

his final reply in chapter 27 to the friends. He be careful. And then he gives his final reply in chapter

27 to the friends. He calls them his enemies. They become his enemies. He refuses to give in and

confess imaginary sins that he knows he hasn't committed. He clings who's innocent. And just like

they've warned him about what happens to the wicked, so now he warns them about the same thing.

So he turns the table. They're the ones, according to Job, who are in danger of suffering the fate of the wicked based on how they've been treating him. And wrapping up the section, I've said this in an earlier episode. Again, it's so easy to slam these friends and, you know, criticize them from the comfort of our chairs.

But like we've been those friends at times.

We've had people in our lives who've been going through hard times or some trials.

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