The Wisdom of Job Part 3: Job Vs. Elihu

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 10 September 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This is our third and final conversation about the book of Job. First we talk about Elihu, a character that seems to pop up our of nowhere. Then we talk about chapter 28 in Job, how it stands apart from the rest of the speeches and gives us a clue as to what the point of the whole book is. Then we talk about the final showdown. God responds to Job’s accusations of being unjust and unfair.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bible Project Podcast. I'm John and I'm going to be talking with Tim.
0:10.6	We're going to discuss the book of Job. This is our third and final conversation on this
0:15.7	book. And if you haven't listened to first two, I'd highly recommend it.
0:19.5	First we're going to talk about Ella Hugh, a new character that seems to pop up out of
0:24.2	nowhere. There's a surprise friend named Ella Hugh who wasn't there with the three friends.
0:29.7	It's really interesting. He's just there. He just starts speaking up. Then we talk about
0:35.0	chapter 28 and Job, how this chapter stands apart from the rest of Job's speeches and how
0:40.9	it gives us a clue as to what the point of this entire book is. Where can humans find wisdom?
0:47.1	They can go under the earth and find gold and jewels. Can humans just go get understanding and
0:53.6	wisdom? Then finally we talk about the final showdown. God responds to Job's accusations of being
1:00.9	unjust and unfair. I am intimately aware of the macrocosmos things that you've never even
1:08.2	conceived of. I'm intimately familiar with every part of the natural world that you thought you
1:15.4	knew about. Maybe you'd like to run the universe for a day according to your vision of how I
1:21.6	ought to do it and you'll find it impossible. And by the way, the world is a raw and wild place.
1:28.8	Good and ordered but still dangerous. I hope you enjoy this final conversation on Job. Here we go.
1:52.6	What's interesting is that the book doesn't just have the three friends and Job that cycle.
2:01.9	There's some extra pieces. There's a surprise friend named Ella Hugh who wasn't there with the
2:09.7	three friends. He's like am I late to the intervention? He totally. It's really interesting. He's just
2:16.6	there. He just starts speaking up at the beginning of chapter 32 and he's presented as a young man
2:24.7	and what we're told is that he was angry with Job for declaring himself to be in the right
2:32.4	rather than God. But he was also angry at the friends because they didn't find any way to
2:38.8	refute Job and yet they had declared him to be guilty even though they couldn't. They had no evidence.
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