What Talking to God Might Look Like Job reflects on what he would do if he were actually allowed to present his case to God.…
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How to understand Job Chapter 22 and Jeremiah 31:25
One More Time, Eliphaz Eliphaz won’t back down. He tells Job that he definitely messed up somehow to merit such a crazy punishment. According to…
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Job Refutes Zophar Job sticks to his guns. The wicked, he says, go unpunished all the time. Not that he’s cool with that. He prays…
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Zophar & His Asps Zophar decides to beat a dead horse. Not literally. He tells Job that the wicked get what they deserve from God.…
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I Will Be Redeemed Apparently no one is listening, so Job reaffirms his desire to plead his case before God. He’s so worked up about…
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Bildad Up to Bat…Again Bildad’s back. Guess what he’s saying this time? That’s right: God punishes the wicked. This time, though, he adds (in a…
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Job Demands a Hearing In case we didn’t get the picture already, Job reiterates how uncool his friends are. Then he—yep, again—confirms that he has…
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Eliphaz Retorts Eliphaz is back on the scene. He says that that Job is undermining God by questioning his ways, which are both unknowable and…
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Job Issues His Reply to His Amigos Now that he knows all his friends are kind of jerks, he talks back. After all, he says,…
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Zophar Gets All Up In Job’s Face Time for more thoughts from the peanut gallery. Zophar says that Job must have done something wrong; God…
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