WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.870 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.990 --> 00:00:04.330 Day three hundred and twenty four. 00:00:04.508 --> 00:00:06.998 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind. 00:00:08.078 --> 00:00:08.768 Who is this? 00:00:08.768 --> 00:00:10.238 That questions my wisdom. 00:00:10.238 --> 00:00:16.358 With such ignorant words, brace yourself like a man because I have some questions 00:00:16.363 --> 00:00:18.548 for you and you must answer them. 00:00:20.078 --> 00:00:23.318 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth? 00:00:24.098 --> 00:00:26.468 Tell me if you know so much I. 00:00:26.618 --> 00:00:31.418 Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line, what 00:00:31.418 --> 00:00:36.248 supports its foundations and who laid its cornerstone As the morning stars 00:00:36.248 --> 00:00:42.518 sang together and all the angels shouted for joy, who kept the sea inside its 00:00:42.518 --> 00:00:48.038 boundaries as it burst from the womb and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped 00:00:48.038 --> 00:00:53.948 it in thick darkness for, I locked it behind Bard Gates limiting its shores. 00:00:54.548 --> 00:00:58.958 I said this far and no farther will you come here. 00:00:58.958 --> 00:01:00.758 Your proud waves must stop. 00:01:02.288 --> 00:01:05.528 Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused 00:01:05.528 --> 00:01:07.388 the dawn to rise in the east? 00:01:08.258 --> 00:01:11.738 Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth to bring 00:01:11.738 --> 00:01:13.448 an end to the night's wickedness? 00:01:14.468 --> 00:01:19.448 As the light approaches, the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal. 00:01:19.988 --> 00:01:22.028 It is robed in brilliant colors. 00:01:22.748 --> 00:01:27.338 The light disturbs the wicked and stops the arm that is raised in violence. 00:01:28.778 --> 00:01:32.018 Have you explored the springs from which the seas come? 00:01:32.798 --> 00:01:34.448 Have you explored their deaths? 00:01:35.288 --> 00:01:37.808 Do you know where the gates of death are located? 00:01:38.408 --> 00:01:40.748 Have you seen the gates of utter gloom? 00:01:41.678 --> 00:01:44.078 Do you realize the extent of the earth? 00:01:44.468 --> 00:01:45.248 Tell me about it. 00:01:45.248 --> 00:01:50.798 If you know, where does light come from and where does darkness go? 00:01:52.013 --> 00:01:53.963 Can you take each to its home? 00:01:54.593 --> 00:01:56.063 Do you know how to get there? 00:01:56.753 --> 00:02:01.763 But of course you know all this for you were born before it was all created, 00:02:01.823 --> 00:02:04.493 and you are so very experienced. 00:02:05.813 --> 00:02:10.793 Have you visited the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of hail? 00:02:11.783 --> 00:02:15.293 I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble for 00:02:15.293 --> 00:02:16.973 the day of battle and war. 00:02:18.173 --> 00:02:20.513 Where is the path to the source of light? 00:02:21.203 --> 00:02:23.063 Where is the home of the East Wind? 00:02:24.113 --> 00:02:28.103 Who created a channel for the Torrance of Rain who laid out 00:02:28.103 --> 00:02:29.363 the path for the lightning? 00:02:30.143 --> 00:02:35.753 Who makes the rain fall on barren land in a desert where no one lives, who 00:02:35.758 --> 00:02:40.613 sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up? 00:02:41.993 --> 00:02:46.073 Does the reign have a father who gives birth to the dew, 00:02:46.553 --> 00:02:48.233 who is the mother of the ice? 00:02:48.848 --> 00:02:53.048 Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens for the water turns 00:02:53.048 --> 00:02:57.518 to ice as hard as rock and the surface of the water freezes. 00:02:58.538 --> 00:03:02.438 Can you direct the movement of the stars binding the cluster of the 00:03:02.438 --> 00:03:05.348 pleis or loosening the cords of Orion? 00:03:06.218 --> 00:03:10.778 Can you direct the constellations through the seasons or guide the bear 00:03:10.778 --> 00:03:12.848 with her cubs across the heavens? 00:03:13.718 --> 00:03:15.668 Do you know the laws of the universe? 00:03:16.328 --> 00:03:18.608 Can you use them to regulate the earth? 00:03:20.108 --> 00:03:22.688 Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain? 00:03:23.438 --> 00:03:27.458 Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct? 00:03:28.058 --> 00:03:32.048 Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind? 00:03:32.428 --> 00:03:38.288 Who is wise enough to count all the clouds who can tilt the water jars of heaven? 00:03:38.678 --> 00:03:43.088 When the parched ground is dry and the soil has hardened into clods? 00:03:44.633 --> 00:03:49.073 Can you stalk prey for a lioness and satisfy the young lion's 00:03:49.073 --> 00:03:52.613 appetites as they lie in their dens or crouch in the thicket? 00:03:53.573 --> 00:03:56.243 Who provides food for the ravens when they're young? 00:03:56.248 --> 00:03:58.823 Cry out to God and wander about in hunger. 00:04:00.113 --> 00:04:02.483 Do you know when the wild goats give birth? 00:04:03.373 --> 00:04:06.143 Have you watched as deer are born in the wild? 00:04:07.193 --> 00:04:09.833 Do you know how many months they carry their young? 00:04:10.553 --> 00:04:12.773 Are you aware of the time of their delivery? 00:04:13.658 --> 00:04:17.288 They crouch down to give birth to their young and deliver their offspring, 00:04:17.978 --> 00:04:22.328 their young, grow up in the open fields, then leave home and never return. 00:04:23.768 --> 00:04:25.508 Who gives the wild donkey? 00:04:25.508 --> 00:04:26.198 Its freedom. 00:04:26.978 --> 00:04:28.808 Who untied its ropes? 00:04:29.528 --> 00:04:31.388 I have placed it in the wild wilderness. 00:04:31.658 --> 00:04:33.278 It's home is the wasteland. 00:04:33.848 --> 00:04:37.328 It hates the noise of the city and has no driver to shout at it. 00:04:38.288 --> 00:04:40.358 The mountains are its pasture land. 00:04:40.943 --> 00:04:43.673 Where it searches for every blade of grass. 00:04:45.053 --> 00:04:47.873 Will the Wild Ox consent to being tamed? 00:04:48.503 --> 00:04:50.393 Will it spend the night in your stall? 00:04:51.173 --> 00:04:53.753 Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow? 00:04:54.383 --> 00:04:58.253 Will it plow a field for you, given its strength? 00:04:58.913 --> 00:04:59.753 Can you trust it? 00:05:00.533 --> 00:05:03.533 Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work? 00:05:04.253 --> 00:05:07.103 Can you rely on it to bring home your grain and deliver 00:05:07.108 --> 00:05:08.423 it to your threshing floor? 00:05:09.938 --> 00:05:14.528 The ostrich flaps, her wings grandly, but they are no match 00:05:14.528 --> 00:05:15.998 for the feathers of the stork. 00:05:16.808 --> 00:05:20.828 She lays her eggs on top of the earth letting them be warmed in the dust. 00:05:21.518 --> 00:05:26.018 She doesn't worry that a foot might crush them or a wild animal might destroy them. 00:05:26.798 --> 00:05:30.728 She is harsh toward her young as if they were not her own. 00:05:31.628 --> 00:05:35.978 She doesn't care if they die for God has deprived her of wisdom. 00:05:36.308 --> 00:05:38.138 He has given her no understanding. 00:05:39.038 --> 00:05:44.108 But whenever she jumps up to run, she passes the swiftest horse with its rider. 00:05:45.878 --> 00:05:50.708 Have you given the horse its strength or clothed its neck with a flowing mane? 00:05:51.338 --> 00:05:54.158 Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust? 00:05:54.488 --> 00:05:55.328 Its majestic. 00:05:55.333 --> 00:05:56.828 Snorting is terrifying. 00:05:57.368 --> 00:06:00.068 It paused the earth and rejoices in its strength. 00:06:00.068 --> 00:06:01.538 When it charges out to battle. 00:06:02.228 --> 00:06:04.478 It laughs at fear and is unafraid. 00:06:04.928 --> 00:06:06.578 It does not run from the sword. 00:06:07.073 --> 00:06:11.213 The arrows rattle against it, and the spear and javelin flash, 00:06:12.113 --> 00:06:15.773 it paused the ground fiercely and rushes forward into battle. 00:06:15.773 --> 00:06:20.123 When the ram's horn blows, it snorts at the sound of the horn. 00:06:20.573 --> 00:06:22.763 It senses the battle in the distance. 00:06:23.333 --> 00:06:27.053 It quivers at the captain's commands and the noise of battle. 00:06:27.863 --> 00:06:32.783 Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk sore and spread its wings toward the south? 00:06:33.743 --> 00:06:38.453 Is it at your command that the eagle rises to the heights to make its nest? 00:06:39.233 --> 00:06:43.463 It lives on the cliffs making its home on a distant rocky crag. 00:06:44.213 --> 00:06:46.733 From there it hunts its prey keeping. 00:06:46.733 --> 00:06:48.503 Watch with piercing eyes. 00:06:49.313 --> 00:06:54.293 It's young gulp on blood where there's a carcass there, you'll find it. 00:06:55.523 --> 00:07:00.413 Then the Lord said to Job, do you still want to argue with the Almighty? 00:07:01.313 --> 00:07:02.633 You are God's critic. 00:07:03.383 --> 00:07:04.943 But do you have the answers? 00:07:06.503 --> 00:07:11.363 Then Job replied to the Lord, I am nothing. 00:07:12.593 --> 00:07:14.783 How could I ever find the answers? 00:07:15.803 --> 00:07:17.753 I will cover my mouth with my hand. 00:07:18.593 --> 00:07:20.003 I have said too much already. 00:07:20.663 --> 00:07:25.343 I have nothing more to say than the Lord answered. 00:07:25.343 --> 00:07:26.543 Job from the whirlwind. 00:07:27.473 --> 00:07:31.703 Brace yourself like a man because I have some questions for you. 00:07:32.468 --> 00:07:33.578 You must answer them. 00:07:34.748 --> 00:07:40.118 Will you discredit my justice and condemn me just to prove you are right? 00:07:41.258 --> 00:07:42.818 Are you as strong as God? 00:07:43.688 --> 00:07:45.668 Can you thunder with a voice like his? 00:07:46.898 --> 00:07:47.378 All right. 00:07:47.888 --> 00:07:51.278 Put on your glory and splendor, your honor and majesty. 00:07:51.608 --> 00:07:53.138 Give then to your anger. 00:07:53.468 --> 00:07:57.338 Let it overflow against the proud humiliate, the Proud. 00:07:57.338 --> 00:08:00.488 With a glance walk on the Wicked where they stand. 00:08:01.043 --> 00:08:04.793 Bury them in the dust, imprison them in the world of the dead, 00:08:05.303 --> 00:08:09.353 then even I would praise you for your own strength would save you. 00:08:10.973 --> 00:08:15.833 Take a look at behemoth, which I made just as I made you. 00:08:16.913 --> 00:08:18.563 It eats grass like an ox. 00:08:19.223 --> 00:08:23.153 See, its powerful loins and the muscles of its belly, its 00:08:23.153 --> 00:08:25.193 tail is as strong as a cedar. 00:08:26.153 --> 00:08:29.183 The sinews of its thighs are knit tightly together. 00:08:29.753 --> 00:08:31.883 Its bones are tubes of bronze. 00:08:32.123 --> 00:08:34.013 Its limbs are bars of iron. 00:08:34.373 --> 00:08:40.223 It is a prime example of God's handiwork and only its creator can threaten it. 00:08:41.273 --> 00:08:45.503 The mountains offer it their best food where all the wild animals play. 00:08:46.313 --> 00:08:50.423 It lies under the lotus plants hidden by the reeds in the marsh. 00:08:51.203 --> 00:08:55.073 The lotus plants give it shade among the willows beside the stream. 00:08:56.003 --> 00:08:58.253 It is not disturbed by the raging river. 00:08:58.793 --> 00:09:03.533 Not concerned when the swelling Jordan rushes around it, no one 00:09:03.533 --> 00:09:07.613 can catch it off guard or put a ring in its nose and lead it away. 00:09:08.813 --> 00:09:12.893 Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw? 00:09:13.673 --> 00:09:17.933 Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike? 00:09:18.953 --> 00:09:22.103 Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity? 00:09:22.943 --> 00:09:26.483 Will it agree to work for you to be your slave for life? 00:09:27.623 --> 00:09:32.483 Can you make it a pet, like a bird or give it to your little girls to play with? 00:09:33.383 --> 00:09:37.013 Will merchants try to buy it, to sell it in their shops? 00:09:37.853 --> 00:09:41.393 Will its hide, be hurt by spears or it's head by a harpoon? 00:09:42.523 --> 00:09:45.893 If you lay a hand on it, you will certainly remember 00:09:45.893 --> 00:09:47.123 the battle that follows. 00:09:47.693 --> 00:09:47.903 You. 00:09:47.903 --> 00:09:49.043 Won't try that again. 00:09:50.048 --> 00:09:52.808 No, it is useless to try to capture it. 00:09:53.498 --> 00:09:58.598 The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down, and since no one dares to disturb 00:09:58.598 --> 00:10:05.708 it, who then can stand up to me who has given me anything that I need to pay back? 00:10:06.308 --> 00:10:08.318 Everything under heaven is mine. 00:10:08.828 --> 00:10:14.108 I want to emphasize Leviathan's limbs and its enormous strength and 00:10:14.108 --> 00:10:16.898 graceful form who can strip off? 00:10:16.898 --> 00:10:17.468 Its hide. 00:10:17.993 --> 00:10:20.693 And who can penetrate its double layer of armor? 00:10:21.443 --> 00:10:25.493 Who could pry open its jaws for its teeth are terrible. 00:10:26.363 --> 00:10:30.743 The scales on its back are like rows of shields tightly sealed together. 00:10:31.583 --> 00:10:35.153 They are so close together that no air can get between them. 00:10:35.873 --> 00:10:38.063 Each scale sticks tight to the next. 00:10:38.303 --> 00:10:40.643 They interlock and cannot be penetrated. 00:10:41.723 --> 00:10:44.243 When it sneezes, it flashes light. 00:10:44.933 --> 00:10:46.913 Its eyes are like the red of dawn. 00:10:47.603 --> 00:10:49.373 Lightning leaps from its mouth. 00:10:49.583 --> 00:10:56.183 Flames of fire flash out smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot 00:10:56.183 --> 00:10:59.453 heated over burning rushes its breath. 00:10:59.603 --> 00:11:03.353 Would kindle coals for flames shoot from its mouth. 00:11:04.613 --> 00:11:09.563 The tremendous strength in leviathan's neck strikes terror wherever it goes. 00:11:10.133 --> 00:11:13.973 Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated. 00:11:14.588 --> 00:11:20.468 Its heart is hard as a rock, hard as a millstone when it rises, the 00:11:20.468 --> 00:11:23.168 mighty are afraid, gripped by terror. 00:11:23.888 --> 00:11:25.328 No sword can stop it. 00:11:25.748 --> 00:11:28.478 No spear dart or javelin. 00:11:29.258 --> 00:11:34.358 Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood. 00:11:35.258 --> 00:11:36.908 Arrows cannot make it flee. 00:11:37.238 --> 00:11:42.938 Stone shot from a sling or like bits of grass, clubs are like a blade of grass. 00:11:43.313 --> 00:11:47.783 And it laughs At the swish of Javelins, its belly is covered 00:11:47.783 --> 00:11:49.913 with scales as sharp as glass. 00:11:50.393 --> 00:11:53.333 It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud. 00:11:54.863 --> 00:11:57.893 Leviathan makes the water boil with its commotion. 00:11:58.433 --> 00:12:01.283 It stirs the depths like a pot of ointment. 00:12:01.823 --> 00:12:05.483 The water glistens in its wake making the sea look white. 00:12:06.383 --> 00:12:08.303 Nothing on earth is its equal. 00:12:08.723 --> 00:12:09.893 No other creatures. 00:12:09.898 --> 00:12:10.673 So fearless. 00:12:11.408 --> 00:12:12.698 Of all the creatures. 00:12:12.968 --> 00:12:14.228 It is the proudest. 00:12:14.888 --> 00:12:16.448 It is the king of beasts. 00:12:17.858 --> 00:12:22.628 Then job replied to the Lord, I know that you can do anything 00:12:23.438 --> 00:12:24.638 and no one can stop you. 00:12:25.898 --> 00:12:27.578 You asked, who is this? 00:12:27.578 --> 00:12:29.978 That questions my wisdom was such ignorance. 00:12:31.178 --> 00:12:31.508 It is. 00:12:31.508 --> 00:12:35.528 I and I was talking about things I knew nothing about 00:12:35.858 --> 00:12:37.748 things far too wonderful for me. 00:12:38.268 --> 00:12:38.388 I. 00:12:38.903 --> 00:12:41.783 You said Listen and I will speak. 00:12:42.263 --> 00:12:45.023 I have some questions for you and you must answer them. 00:12:46.283 --> 00:12:51.563 I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes. 00:12:52.493 --> 00:12:59.123 I take back everything I said and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance. 00:13:01.643 --> 00:13:06.113 After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to PHA the team night. 00:13:06.953 --> 00:13:12.173 I am angry with you and your two friends for you have not spoken accurately 00:13:12.173 --> 00:13:14.843 about me as my servant job has. 00:13:15.683 --> 00:13:21.053 So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant job and offer 00:13:21.058 --> 00:13:22.763 a burnt offering for yourselves. 00:13:23.453 --> 00:13:28.883 My servant job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer on your behalf. 00:13:29.633 --> 00:13:34.613 I will not treat you as you deserve, for you have not spoken accurately about me. 00:13:34.988 --> 00:13:42.548 As my servant job has so pha, the Timan Night Bill Dad, the shoe height and sohar. 00:13:42.548 --> 00:13:47.918 The Neite did as the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted job's prayer. 00:13:49.028 --> 00:13:52.838 When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. 00:13:53.558 --> 00:13:59.078 In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before than all his brothers, 00:13:59.318 --> 00:14:03.698 sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. 00:14:04.493 --> 00:14:08.513 And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials 00:14:08.518 --> 00:14:09.923 the Lord had brought against him. 00:14:10.583 --> 00:14:14.093 And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring. 00:14:15.713 --> 00:14:19.943 So the Lord blessed job in the second half of his life, even more than in 00:14:19.948 --> 00:14:27.203 the beginning for now, he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1000 teams 00:14:27.203 --> 00:14:30.173 of oxen, and 1000 female donkeys. 00:14:31.523 --> 00:14:35.483 He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters. 00:14:36.053 --> 00:14:40.913 He named his first daughter Jemima, the second Kaiah, and the third 00:14:40.918 --> 00:14:43.793 Karen Happe in all the land. 00:14:43.823 --> 00:14:48.683 No women were as lovely as the daughters of Job and their father put them into 00:14:48.683 --> 00:14:52.793 his will, along with their brothers job. 00:14:52.793 --> 00:14:57.683 Lived 140 years after that living to see four generations of his 00:14:57.683 --> 00:14:59.213 children and grandchildren. 00:14:59.933 --> 00:15:05.063 Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life. 00:15:09.743 --> 00:15:12.593 This concludes today's Immer Reading experience. 00:15:12.743 --> 00:15:13.973 Thank you for joining us.