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Bible translation used in today's episode: Ch. 25-26 NET

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This is Poetry Thursday. Our reading will be Job 25-26. I’m calling this episode, “You Have No Idea.”

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Comments on Job 25-26

In Job 25, Bildad compares the awesome power of God to the unlikeliness of a human being righteous before Him. I think that He has this notion because he, like most people of that time, we basing a person’s righteousness on works. But Job, even though by God’s own words to Satan in chapter one, was “a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil” was a man of deep faith in God. I believe that it was because of Job’s faith that God was so pleased with him. 

And then in chapter 26, Job begins with a sarcastic response to Bildad’s description of God’s might. He says, “My goodness! You have been so very helpful with your great wisdom!” (My “translation”.) 

And then he goes on with an eloquent soliloquy of just a few of God’s great powers, and wraps it up with saying, “These are least of His ways!” (Again, my “translation”.)

Continuing, Job says, “Having said all this, we have only a faint idea of Him. But who can grasp the enormity of His power?” 

I think Job was saying, “Bildad, you have no idea what you are talking about. You don’t understand God, so who are you to tell me that God is doing these things to me?”

Understandably, Job is quite testy with his friends at this point.

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Job 25-26: You Have No Idea (LSFAB S13E089)

[TEASER - 0:00]My goodness, you've been so very helpful with your great wisdom!

[INTRO S13E089 - 0:12]Coming to you from Riverside, California, this is the Lifespring Family Audio Bible, and podcasting since 2004, I'm your OG Godcaster, Steve Webb. This is a daily podcast and we're reading through the entire Bible in a year. Do you find the week between Christmas and New Year's to be sort of, I don't know, gray, kind of like a waiting room? You know, nothing much happening, just sort of flying in a holding pattern. Well, maybe it's just me. Well, hey, did you know that there are nearly 3000 podcast episodes over at lifespringmedia.com? There's music, there's interviews, the stories behind some of the old hymns. Take a look at lifespringmedia.com and this is Poetry Thursday. Today, our reading will be Job 25 and 26. And I'm calling the episode "You Have No Idea."

Now before we read, let's pray.

[OPENING PRAYER - 1:02]Our Father, we love you, and we thank you so much for your Word. Father, you know that I love the book of Job because of what it teaches us about when life is hard it isn't necessarily because we've done something wrong. Father as we read, I pray that you'll teach us and I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

All right, let's begin.

[JOB 25 (NET) - 1:24]Job, chapter 25.

(1) Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:(2) “Dominion and awesome might belong to God;he establishes peace in his heights.(3) Can his armies be numbered?On whom does his light not rise?(4) How can a human being be righteous before God?How can one born of a woman be pure?(5) Even if the moon is not bright,and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,(6) how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot –a son of man, who is only a worm!”

[JOB 26 (NET) - 1:59]Job, chapter 26.

(1) Then Job replied:(2) “How you have helped the powerless!How you have saved the person who has no strength!(3) How you have advised the one without wisdom,and abundantly revealed your insight!(4) To whom did you utter these words?