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Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter today Audio Bible. I'm John Stangey,

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Speaker 1: and today we're in Job chapter forty, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: reading from the New Living Translation. Then the Lord said

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Speaker 1: to Job, do you still want to argue with the Almighty?

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Speaker 1: You are God's critic, But do you have the answers?

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Speaker 1: Then Job replied to the Lord, I am nothing. How

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Speaker 1: could I ever find the answers? I will cover my

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Speaker 1: mouth with my hand. I have said too much already.

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Speaker 1: I have nothing more to say. Then the Lord answered

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Speaker 1: Job from the whirlwind, brace yourself like a man, because

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Speaker 1: I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.

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Speaker 1: Will you discredit my justice and condemn me? Just to

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Speaker 1: prove you are right? Are you as strong as God?

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Speaker 1: Can you thunder with a voice like his? All right?

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Speaker 1: Put on your glory and splendor, your honor and majesty.

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Speaker 1: Give vent to your anger, Let it overflow against the proud.

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Speaker 1: Humiliate the proud with a glance, Walk on the wicked

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Speaker 1: where they stand, Bury them in the dust, imprison them

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Speaker 1: in the world of the dead. Then even I would

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Speaker 1: praise you for your own strength would save you. Take

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Speaker 1: a look at Behemoth, which I made just as I

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Speaker 1: made you. It eats grass like an ox. See its

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Speaker 1: powerful loins and the muscles of its belly. Its tail

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Speaker 1: is as strong as a cedar. The sinews of its

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Speaker 1: thighs are knit tightly together. Its bones or tubes of bronze,

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Speaker 1: its limbs or bars of iron. It's a prime example

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Speaker 1: of God's handiwork, and only its creator can threaten it.

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Speaker 1: The mountains offer it their best food, where all the

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Speaker 1: wild animals play. It lies under the lotus plants, hidden

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Speaker 1: by the reeds in the marsh. The lotus plants give

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Speaker 1: it shade among the willows beside the stream. It is

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Speaker 1: not disturbed by the raging river, not concerned when the

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Speaker 1: swelling Jordan rushes around it. No one can catch it

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Speaker 1: off guard or put a ring in its nose and

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Speaker 1: lead it away. Let's pray, Lord, We thank you for

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Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: look at this portion of Scripture today, and we thank

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Speaker 1: you for the things that you reveal here about your

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Speaker 1: majesty and your strength, and how you invite job to

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Speaker 1: be someone who at this point, after all this talking

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Speaker 1: that he's done, to simply listen. And Lord, we know

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Speaker 1: that that's something that we wrestle with. It's something that

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Speaker 1: we struggle with. It's so easy for us to do

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Speaker 1: all the talking and very little listening. But Lord, you

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Speaker 1: invite us to be people who come before you in prayer.

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Speaker 1: We have access before your throne because of the work

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Speaker 1: of your son Jesus Christ, who serves as our intercessor

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Speaker 1: and our great and mighty high Priest. And Lord, when

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Speaker 1: we come before you, we pray that we would do

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Speaker 1: so with humility, and that we would listen when you speak. Lord,

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Speaker 1: We're grateful for your willingness to speak into our lives.

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Speaker 1: We're grateful for the fact that you care about the

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Speaker 1: things that matter to us and the things that we're

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Speaker 1: going through and experiencing. And we're grateful, Lord that you're

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Speaker 1: willing to give us your counsel. Lord, we pray that

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Speaker 1: we would be obedient to you. We pray that we

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Speaker 1: would listen to you. And we pray, Lord, in the

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Speaker 1: midst of all the testings and trials and temptations that

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Speaker 1: we face during the course of our earthly lives, that

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Speaker 1: we would listen to you, that we would put you first,

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Speaker 1: and that we wouldn't gravitate toward subjecting ourselves to a

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Speaker 1: rebellious mind, or an attitude, or a heart decision that

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Speaker 1: isn't in line with your will. So Lord, thank you

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Speaker 1: for all of these things, Thank you for your presence

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Speaker 1: with us today, and we commit this day to your

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Speaker 1: care and pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen,