1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Job chapter twenty, and 5 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: we'll be reading from the New Living Translation. Then so far, 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: the Namathite replied, I must reply because I am greatly disturbed. 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: I've had to endure your insults, but now my spirit 8 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 1: prompts me to reply. Don't you realize that from the 9 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: beginning of time, ever since people were first placed on 10 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: the earth, the triumph of the wicked has been short lived, 11 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: and the joy of the godless has been only temporary. 12 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: Though the pride of the godless reaches to the heavens, 13 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: and their heads touched the clouds, yet they will van forever, 14 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: thrown away like their own dung. Those who knew them 15 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: will ask where are they. They will fade like a 16 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: dream and not be found. They will vanish like a 17 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 1: vision in the night. Those who once saw them will 18 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: see them no more. Their families will never see them again. 19 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: Their children will beg from the poor, for they must 20 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: give back their stolen riches. Though they are young, their 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: bones will lie in the dust. They enjoyed the sweet 22 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: taste of wickedness, letting it melt under their tongue. They 23 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: savored it, holding it long in their mouths. But suddenly 24 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: the food and their bellies turned sour, a poisonous venom 25 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: in their stomach. They will vomit the wealth they swallowed. 26 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: God won't let them keep it down. They will suck 27 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: the poison of cobras. The viper will kill them. They 28 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: will never again enjoy streams of olive oil, or rivers 29 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: of milk and honey. They will give back everything they 30 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: worked for. Their wealth will bring them no joy, for 31 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: they oppressed the poor and left them destitute. They foreclosed 32 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: on their homes. They were always greedy and never satisfied. 33 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 1: Nothing remains of all the things they dreamed about. Nothing 34 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: is left after they finish gorging themselves. Therefore, their prosperity 35 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: will not endure in the midst of plenty. They will 36 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: run into trouble and be overcome by misery. May God 37 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: give them a belly full of trouble. May God rein 38 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: down his anger upon them. When they try to escape 39 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: an iron weapon, a bronze tipped arrow will pierce them 40 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: the arrow is pulled from their back, and the arrow 41 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: had glistens with blood. The terrors of death are a them. 42 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: Their treasures will be thrown into deepest darkness. A wildfire 43 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: will devour their goods, consuming all they have left. The 44 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: heavens will reveal their guilt, and the earth will testify 45 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: against them. A flood will sweep away their house. God's 46 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: anger will descend on them in torrents. This is the 47 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: reward that God gives the wicked. It is the inheritance 48 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: decreed by God. Let's pray, Lord, we thank you for 49 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for the privilege of 50 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: being able to look at it together today. And Lord, 51 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: as we look at this portion of scripture, we see 52 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: so Far give this response to Job, and it seems 53 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: like he's losing his patience, and he seems like he's 54 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: growing tired of Job failing to admit some level of 55 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: guilt or some level of unrighteousness. It seems that Zofar's 56 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: implication here is that Job was wealthy but was wicked 57 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: in the process, and that's why this calamity has come 58 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: upon him. And Lord, there's certainly true statements that zo 59 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: Far makes in this accusation. It is true that those 60 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: who idolize the riches of this world will one day 61 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 1: discover that those very things are taken away from them 62 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: and they don't have them. Those aren't things that we 63 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: can lean on for all eternity. But Lord, that doesn't 64 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: seem like that Zofar's intention as he's speaking to Job. 65 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: That's not what he's primarily focused on. It seems like 66 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: he's more intent on lumping Job in with the plight 67 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: of the wicked. And Lord, we certainly do recognize that 68 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: in and of ourselves we are wicked and we lack righteousness. 69 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: But we're grateful that through faith in your son Jesus Christ, 70 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: that we are granted righteousness as a gift. So, Lord, 71 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: we pray that we would live lives that show that 72 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: we're grateful for the righteousness of Christ that's been imputed 73 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: to our account, and that we would bring you glory 74 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: in what we think, about what we say and what 75 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: we do, that our minds, that our hearts, that our hands, 76 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: that our attitudes, that it would all point to you 77 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: and testify to your goodness and to your presence with us. Lord, 78 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: we're grateful that you're present with us today. And we 79 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: commit this day to your care and thank you for 80 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: all of these things in Jesus' name. Amen.