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Speaker 1: I'm John Stangey, and today we're in Job chapter twenty

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Speaker 1: two and we'll be reading from the English Standard version.

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Speaker 1: Then Elf as the team Aanite, answered and said, can

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Speaker 1: a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is

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Speaker 1: wise is profitable to himself. Is it any pleasure to

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Speaker 1: the Almighty if you are in the right? Or is

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Speaker 1: it gained to him if you make your ways blameless?

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Speaker 1: Is it for your fear of Him that he reproves

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Speaker 1: you and enters into judgment with you? Is not your

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Speaker 1: evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities for you.

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Speaker 1: You have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and

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Speaker 1: strip the naked of their clothing. You have given no

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Speaker 1: water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld

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Speaker 1: bread from the hungry. The man with power possessed the

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Speaker 1: land and the favored man lived in it. You have

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Speaker 1: sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless

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Speaker 1: were crushed. Therefore, snares are all around you, and sudden

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Speaker 1: terror overwhelms you, or darkness so that you cannot see,

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Speaker 1: and a flood of water covers you. Is not God

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Speaker 1: high in the heavens, see the highest stars, how lofty

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Speaker 1: they are. But you say, what does God know? Can

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Speaker 1: he judge through the deep darkness? Thick clouds veil him

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Speaker 1: so that he does not see, and he walks on

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Speaker 1: the vault of heaven. Will you keep to the old

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Speaker 1: way that wicked men have trod? They were snatched away

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Speaker 1: before their time. Their foundation was washed away. They said

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Speaker 1: to God, depart from us, and what can the Almighty

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Speaker 1: do to us? Yet he filled their houses with good things,

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Speaker 1: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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Speaker 1: The righteous see it and are glad. The innocent one

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Speaker 1: mocks at them, saying, surely our adversaries are cut off,

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Speaker 1: and what they left the fire has consumed. Agree with

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Speaker 1: God and be at peace. Thereby good will come to you.

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Speaker 1: Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words

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Speaker 1: in your heart. If you return to the Almighty, you

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Speaker 1: will be built up. If you remove injustice far from

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Speaker 1: your tents, If you lay gold in the dust and

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Speaker 1: gold of o fear among the stones of the torrent bed,

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Speaker 1: then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.

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Speaker 1: For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and

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Speaker 1: lift up your face to God. You will make your

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Speaker 1: prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you

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Speaker 1: will pay your vows. You will decide on a matter,

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Speaker 1: and it will be established for you, and light will

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Speaker 1: shine on your ways. For when they are humbled, you

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Speaker 1: say it is because of pride. But he saves the lowly.

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Speaker 1: He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who

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Speaker 1: will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands. Let's pray, Lord,

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Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you

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Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at it

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Speaker 1: together today. And Lord, as we look at this portion

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Speaker 1: of scripture, we watch as Eliphaz continues to bring accusation

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Speaker 1: against Job, and again, instead of encouraging his friend, he

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Speaker 1: uses his words to say, tear him down. And Lord,

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Speaker 1: in this we see a pattern of something that Satan

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Speaker 1: loves to do against your people. He brings accusation against

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Speaker 1: your children. But Lord, we know that we have an

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Speaker 1: advocate before you, your son Jesus Christ, serves as our advocate.

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Speaker 1: Whenever the devil brings accusation against us. He is our defender.

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Speaker 1: He is the source of our righteousness, and the evil

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Speaker 1: intentions of Satan cannot stick against your people because we

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Speaker 1: are defended by your righteous son, Jesus Christ. Lord, We're

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Speaker 1: grateful for this reality, and we're grateful for the fact

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Speaker 1: that your word makes this reality clear to us. Lord,

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Speaker 1: Thank you again for the privilege of being able to

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Speaker 1: look at your word each day, and we pray that

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Speaker 1: as we do so, that our walk with you would

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Speaker 1: grow more sincere, that we would grow more mature in

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Speaker 1: our faith, and that our love for your son Jesus

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Speaker 1: Christ would continue to grow as we seek to follow

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Speaker 1: his leading. Thank you again for your love, and thank

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Speaker 1: you again for all of these things. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: we pray Amen m