1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter today Audio Bible. I'm John Stangey, 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: and today we're in Job chapter ten and we'll be 5 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 1: reading from the English Standard version. I loathe my life. 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: I will give free utterance to my complaint. I will 7 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: to God, do not condemn me. Let me know why 9 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: you contend against me. Does it seem good to you 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 1: to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, and 11 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: favor the designs of the wicked? Have you eyes of flesh? 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: Do you see as man sees? Are your days as 13 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: the days of man? Or your years as a man's years? 14 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: That you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, 15 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: although you know that I am not guilty, and there 16 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: is none to deliver out of your hand. Your hands 17 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. 18 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: Remember that you have made me like clay, and will 19 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: you return me to the dust? Did you not pour 20 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? You 21 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together 22 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and 23 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit. Yet 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: these things you hid in your heart. I know that 25 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: this was your purpose. If I sin, you watch me 26 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: and do not ecquit me of my iniquity. If I 27 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: am guilty, woe to me. If I am in the right, 28 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled 29 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: with disgrace, and look on my afflict. And were my 30 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion, 31 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: and again work wonders against me. You renew your witness 32 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: against me, and increase your vexation toward me. You bring 33 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: fresh troops against me. Why did you bring me out 34 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: from the womb? Would that I had died before any 35 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: eye had seen me? And whereas though I had not 36 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: been carried from the womb to the grave, are not 37 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: my days few? Then cease and leave me alone, that 38 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: I may find a little cheer before I go, and 39 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: I shall not return to the land of darkness and 40 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: deep shadow, the land of gloom, like thick darkness, like 41 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: deep shadow, without any order, where light is as thick darkness. 42 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, we thank you for your word, and 43 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: we thank you for the opportunity to be able to 44 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: look at it together today. And Lord, when we look 45 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: at this portion of Scripture, we could see Job's anguish 46 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: is very real, and he's in the midst of the 47 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: darkest season of his life, and he's questioning why he 48 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 1: was even allowed to be born. And at the same time, 49 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: as he examines his life, he's not seeing an area 50 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: of obvious sin against you. He feels that up to 51 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: this point he's been living in such a way that 52 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: he's honored you, and so he questions this time of 53 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: trial because he's thinking of it through the lens of 54 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: it being a punishment for sin. And Lord, you certainly 55 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: do judge sin, and there are certainly consequences for sin. 56 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: But Lord, help us to learn from what we're seeing 57 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: Job experience in this book that not every trial that 58 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: we experience in our life is something related to sinful 59 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: activity on our part. Sometimes, Lord, you reveal to us 60 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: in your Word that you allow trials to come into 61 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: our lives for the purpose of us becoming stronger, for 62 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: the purpose of us learning that we can rely on 63 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: you and trust in you. You develop our faith, and 64 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: you produce holiness and perseverance in the lives of those 65 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: who trust in you. Lord, we're grateful for that. Lord. 66 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: You demonstrate time and again in scripture that good things 67 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: can come from trials. We see that likewise in the 68 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: trials that your son Jesus Christ experienced during the course 69 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: of his earthly ministry. As he, the innocent One, the 70 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: anointed One, was crucified for our sin, but he did 71 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: so for our benefit, that much righteousness could come as 72 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: a result of his intervention on our behalf. So we're grateful, 73 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: Lord for these things, and we pray that you'd remind 74 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: us of these truths when we're in the midst of 75 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: seasons that feel very difficult, and seasons that weigh heavy 76 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: on our souls. Lord, grant us your strength, and we 77 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: thank you for your presence with us today. We commit 78 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: this day to your care and pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.