WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.880 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.980 --> 00:00:04.140 Day three hundred and twenty. 00:00:04.287 --> 00:00:05.727 Then job spoke again. 00:00:06.777 --> 00:00:11.307 I have heard all this before, what miserable comforters you are. 00:00:12.027 --> 00:00:14.487 Won't you ever stop blowing hot air? 00:00:14.492 --> 00:00:17.187 I what makes you keep on talking? 00:00:18.357 --> 00:00:19.377 I could say the same things. 00:00:19.377 --> 00:00:23.667 If you were in my place, I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you, 00:00:24.657 --> 00:00:27.087 but if it were me, I would encourage you. 00:00:28.032 --> 00:00:30.012 I would try to take away your grief. 00:00:30.642 --> 00:00:31.842 Instead, I suffer. 00:00:31.842 --> 00:00:34.512 If I defend myself and I suffer no less. 00:00:34.512 --> 00:00:40.602 If I refuse to speak, oh God, you have ground me down and devastated my 00:00:40.602 --> 00:00:43.482 family as if to prove I have sinned. 00:00:43.782 --> 00:00:46.032 You've reduced me to skin and bones. 00:00:46.572 --> 00:00:49.212 My gaunt flesh testifies against me. 00:00:50.082 --> 00:00:52.992 God hates me and angrily tears me apart. 00:00:53.562 --> 00:00:56.622 He snaps his teeth at me and pierces me with his eyes. 00:00:57.477 --> 00:00:59.277 People jeer and laugh at me. 00:00:59.637 --> 00:01:04.077 They slap my cheek in contempt, A mob gathers against me. 00:01:04.737 --> 00:01:06.687 God has handed me over to sinners. 00:01:07.017 --> 00:01:09.117 He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked. 00:01:10.677 --> 00:01:13.347 I was living quietly until he shattered me. 00:01:14.037 --> 00:01:16.587 He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces. 00:01:17.337 --> 00:01:21.237 Then he set me up as his target, and now his archers surround me. 00:01:21.957 --> 00:01:24.087 His arrows pierce me without mercy. 00:01:24.537 --> 00:01:26.427 The ground is wet with my blood. 00:01:27.057 --> 00:01:31.467 Again and again, he smashes against me, charging at me like a warrior. 00:01:32.607 --> 00:01:34.647 I wear burlap to show my grief. 00:01:35.097 --> 00:01:37.407 My pride lies in the dust. 00:01:38.127 --> 00:01:41.457 My eyes are red with weeping dark shadows. 00:01:41.457 --> 00:01:42.627 Circle my eyes. 00:01:42.917 --> 00:01:49.737 Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure O Earth. 00:01:49.977 --> 00:01:51.657 Do not conceal my blood. 00:01:52.167 --> 00:01:54.147 Let it cry out on my behalf. 00:01:54.927 --> 00:01:57.087 Even now, my witness is in heaven. 00:01:57.537 --> 00:01:59.877 My advocate is there on high. 00:02:00.537 --> 00:02:04.347 My friends scorned me, but I pour out my tears to God. 00:02:05.157 --> 00:02:10.737 I need someone to mediate between God and me as a person, mediates between friends. 00:02:11.397 --> 00:02:15.117 For soon I must go down that road from which I will never return. 00:02:16.587 --> 00:02:20.907 My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. 00:02:21.597 --> 00:02:23.517 The grave is ready to receive me. 00:02:24.372 --> 00:02:25.932 I am surrounded by mockers. 00:02:26.082 --> 00:02:28.032 I watch how bitterly they taunt me. 00:02:29.262 --> 00:02:33.612 You must defend my innocence, oh God, since no one else will 00:02:33.612 --> 00:02:37.692 stand up for me, you have closed their minds to understanding. 00:02:37.692 --> 00:02:39.462 But do not let them triumph. 00:02:40.272 --> 00:02:43.992 They betray their friends for their own advantage, so let 00:02:43.992 --> 00:02:45.852 their children faint with hunger. 00:02:46.512 --> 00:02:51.282 God has made a mockery of me among the people they spit in my face. 00:02:52.122 --> 00:02:56.742 My eyes are swollen with weeping and I am, but a shadow of my former self. 00:02:57.552 --> 00:02:59.862 The virtuous are horrified when they see me. 00:03:00.342 --> 00:03:04.752 The innocent rise up against the ungodly, the righteous keep moving 00:03:04.752 --> 00:03:08.682 forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger. 00:03:09.972 --> 00:03:14.592 As for all of you, come back with a better argument, though I still 00:03:14.592 --> 00:03:16.362 won't find a wise man among you. 00:03:17.682 --> 00:03:18.762 My days are over. 00:03:19.452 --> 00:03:21.402 My hopes have disappeared. 00:03:21.852 --> 00:03:23.592 My heart's desires are broken. 00:03:24.672 --> 00:03:26.712 These men say that night is day. 00:03:27.012 --> 00:03:28.812 They claim that the darkness is light. 00:03:29.832 --> 00:03:32.742 What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness? 00:03:33.522 --> 00:03:38.322 What if I call the grave my father and the maggot my mother or my sister? 00:03:38.702 --> 00:03:40.182 Where then is my hope? 00:03:40.542 --> 00:03:41.652 Can anyone find it? 00:03:42.822 --> 00:03:43.212 No. 00:03:43.992 --> 00:03:46.242 My hope will go down with me to the grave. 00:03:47.037 --> 00:03:48.867 We will rest together in the dust. 00:03:50.607 --> 00:03:51.327 Then Bill dead. 00:03:51.327 --> 00:03:55.287 The shoe height replied, how long before you stop talking? 00:03:55.797 --> 00:03:57.957 Speak sense If you want us to answer. 00:03:58.797 --> 00:04:00.627 Do you think we are mere animals? 00:04:01.167 --> 00:04:02.427 Do you think we are stupid? 00:04:03.297 --> 00:04:07.227 You may tear out your hair and anger, but will that destroy the earth? 00:04:07.827 --> 00:04:09.417 Will it make the rocks tremble? 00:04:10.557 --> 00:04:12.957 Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. 00:04:13.587 --> 00:04:15.837 The sparks of their fire will not glow. 00:04:16.557 --> 00:04:18.567 The light in their tent will grow dark. 00:04:19.107 --> 00:04:21.297 The lamp hanging above them will be quenched. 00:04:22.077 --> 00:04:24.537 The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. 00:04:24.807 --> 00:04:26.817 Their own schemes will be their downfall. 00:04:27.837 --> 00:04:29.367 The wicked walk into a net. 00:04:29.577 --> 00:04:30.957 They fall into a pit. 00:04:31.437 --> 00:04:33.507 A trap grabs them by the heel. 00:04:33.512 --> 00:04:35.187 A snare holds them tight. 00:04:35.667 --> 00:04:37.617 A noose lies hidden on the ground. 00:04:37.797 --> 00:04:39.987 A rope is stretched across their path. 00:04:40.917 --> 00:04:44.337 Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step. 00:04:45.117 --> 00:04:48.957 Hunger depletes their strength and calamity waits for them to stumble. 00:04:49.797 --> 00:04:53.607 Disease, eats their skin death, devours their limbs. 00:04:54.297 --> 00:04:57.537 They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought 00:04:57.537 --> 00:04:59.307 down to the king of terrors. 00:04:59.997 --> 00:05:04.407 The homes of the wicked will burn down burning sulfur reigns on their houses. 00:05:05.217 --> 00:05:08.547 Their roots will dry up and their branches will wither. 00:05:09.477 --> 00:05:12.237 All memory of their existence will fade from the earth. 00:05:12.447 --> 00:05:14.217 No one will remember their names. 00:05:14.862 --> 00:05:19.062 They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world. 00:05:19.842 --> 00:05:23.592 They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor 00:05:23.592 --> 00:05:24.882 in the place where they lived. 00:05:25.602 --> 00:05:27.852 People in the West are appalled at their fate. 00:05:28.032 --> 00:05:29.802 People in the East are horrified. 00:05:30.312 --> 00:05:34.122 They will say, this was the home of a wicked person, the 00:05:34.122 --> 00:05:35.952 place of one who rejected God. 00:05:37.632 --> 00:05:38.952 Then Job spoke again. 00:05:39.762 --> 00:05:41.622 How long will you torture me? 00:05:42.282 --> 00:05:44.802 How long will you try to crush me with your words? 00:05:45.492 --> 00:05:48.132 You have already insulted me 10 times. 00:05:48.732 --> 00:05:53.742 You should be ashamed of treating me so badly, even if I have sinned. 00:05:53.892 --> 00:05:55.812 That is my concern, not yours. 00:05:56.502 --> 00:06:00.192 You think you're better than I am using my humiliation as evidence 00:06:00.192 --> 00:06:04.962 of my sin, but it is God who has wronged me, capturing me and his net. 00:06:05.982 --> 00:06:09.012 I cry out help, but no one answers me. 00:06:09.552 --> 00:06:10.452 I protest. 00:06:10.977 --> 00:06:12.297 But there is no justice. 00:06:13.107 --> 00:06:15.597 God has blocked my way, so I cannot move. 00:06:16.107 --> 00:06:18.627 He has plunged my path into darkness. 00:06:19.557 --> 00:06:23.127 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. 00:06:23.787 --> 00:06:27.237 He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. 00:06:27.897 --> 00:06:30.537 He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree. 00:06:31.287 --> 00:06:33.207 His fury burns against me. 00:06:33.327 --> 00:06:35.007 He counts me as an enemy. 00:06:35.547 --> 00:06:37.077 His troops advance. 00:06:37.542 --> 00:06:39.372 They build up roads to attack me. 00:06:39.522 --> 00:06:41.682 They camp all around my tent. 00:06:42.882 --> 00:06:46.962 My relatives stay far away and my friends have turned against me. 00:06:47.622 --> 00:06:50.742 My family is gone and my close friends have forgotten me. 00:06:51.522 --> 00:06:54.012 My servants and maids consider me a stranger. 00:06:54.012 --> 00:06:55.572 I am like a foreigner to them. 00:06:56.472 --> 00:06:59.052 When I call my servant, he doesn't come. 00:06:59.412 --> 00:07:00.612 I have to plead with him. 00:07:01.482 --> 00:07:03.792 My breath is repulsive to my wife. 00:07:03.822 --> 00:07:05.712 I am rejected by my own family. 00:07:05.712 --> 00:07:09.762 Even young children despise me when I stand to speak. 00:07:10.062 --> 00:07:11.352 They turn their backs on me. 00:07:12.432 --> 00:07:14.262 My close friends detest me. 00:07:15.282 --> 00:07:17.892 Those I loved have turned against me. 00:07:18.362 --> 00:07:22.452 I have been reduced to skin and bones and have escaped 00:07:22.452 --> 00:07:24.312 death by the skin of my teeth. 00:07:25.932 --> 00:07:27.702 Have mercy on me, my friends. 00:07:28.542 --> 00:07:31.632 Have mercy for the hand of God has struck me. 00:07:32.712 --> 00:07:35.532 Must you also persecute me like God does? 00:07:36.162 --> 00:07:37.842 Haven't you chewed me up enough? 00:07:39.102 --> 00:07:40.902 Oh, that my words could be recorded. 00:07:41.142 --> 00:07:44.292 Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument carved with an 00:07:44.297 --> 00:07:48.432 iron chisel, and filled with lead engraved forever in the rock. 00:07:49.812 --> 00:07:54.702 But as for me, I know that my redeemer lives and he will 00:07:54.702 --> 00:07:56.682 stand upon the earth at last. 00:07:57.597 --> 00:08:01.947 After my body has decayed yet in my body, I will see God. 00:08:02.607 --> 00:08:04.197 I will see him for myself. 00:08:05.187 --> 00:08:07.347 Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. 00:08:08.727 --> 00:08:10.257 I am overwhelmed at the thought. 00:08:11.847 --> 00:08:16.167 How dare you go on persecuting me, saying it's his own fault. 00:08:16.917 --> 00:08:21.087 You should fear punishment yourselves for your attitude deserves punishment. 00:08:21.837 --> 00:08:24.987 Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment. 00:08:26.637 --> 00:08:28.707 Benzo far, the neite replied. 00:08:29.337 --> 00:08:32.517 I must reply because I am greatly disturbed. 00:08:33.117 --> 00:08:37.437 I've had to endure your insults, but now my spirit prompts me to reply. 00:08:38.727 --> 00:08:42.957 Don't you realize that from the beginning of time, ever since people were first 00:08:42.957 --> 00:08:48.177 placed on the earth, the triumph of the wicked has been short-lived and the joy 00:08:48.177 --> 00:08:50.157 of the godless has been only temporary. 00:08:51.447 --> 00:08:55.137 Though the pride of the godless reaches to the heavens and their heads touch the 00:08:55.137 --> 00:09:00.027 clouds, yet they will vanish forever, thrown away like their own dung. 00:09:00.897 --> 00:09:03.567 Those who knew them will ask, where are they? 00:09:04.497 --> 00:09:07.287 They will fade like a dream and not be found. 00:09:07.827 --> 00:09:09.957 They will vanish like a vision in the night. 00:09:10.647 --> 00:09:13.107 Those who once saw them will see them no more. 00:09:13.587 --> 00:09:15.747 Their families will never see them again. 00:09:16.572 --> 00:09:21.102 Their children will beg from the poor for they must give back their stolen riches. 00:09:22.002 --> 00:09:25.212 Though they are young, their bones will lie in the dust. 00:09:26.622 --> 00:09:30.222 They enjoyed the sweet taste of wickedness, letting it 00:09:30.222 --> 00:09:31.452 melt under their tongue. 00:09:32.052 --> 00:09:36.702 They savored it, holding it long in their mouths, but suddenly the 00:09:36.702 --> 00:09:41.262 food in their bellies turned sour, A poisonous venom in their stomach. 00:09:41.967 --> 00:09:44.187 They will vomit the wealth they swallowed. 00:09:44.457 --> 00:09:46.107 God won't let them keep it down. 00:09:46.857 --> 00:09:48.957 They will suck the poison of cobras. 00:09:48.987 --> 00:09:50.367 The Viper will kill them. 00:09:51.147 --> 00:09:55.737 They will never again enjoy streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey. 00:09:56.577 --> 00:09:58.647 They will give back everything they worked for. 00:09:59.097 --> 00:10:02.907 Their wealth will bring them no joy for they oppressed the 00:10:02.907 --> 00:10:04.827 poor and left them destitute. 00:10:05.397 --> 00:10:07.017 They foreclosed on their homes. 00:10:07.557 --> 00:10:09.987 They were always greedy and never satisfied. 00:10:10.857 --> 00:10:15.057 Nothing remains of all the things they dreamed about, nothing is left 00:10:15.237 --> 00:10:17.277 after they finish gorging themselves. 00:10:18.027 --> 00:10:23.097 Therefore, their prosperity will not endure in the midst 00:10:23.097 --> 00:10:27.027 of plenty, they will run into trouble and be overcome by misery. 00:10:27.927 --> 00:10:30.507 May God give them a belly full of trouble. 00:10:30.957 --> 00:10:33.267 May God reign down his anger upon them. 00:10:33.867 --> 00:10:38.397 When they try to escape an iron weapon, a bronze tipped arrow will pierce them. 00:10:39.177 --> 00:10:43.197 The arrow is pulled from their back and the arrow had glistens with blood. 00:10:43.977 --> 00:10:45.867 The terrors of death are upon them. 00:10:46.467 --> 00:10:49.197 Their treasures will be thrown into deepest darkness. 00:10:49.977 --> 00:10:54.807 A wildfire will devour their goods consuming All they have left, the 00:10:54.807 --> 00:10:59.067 heavens will reveal their guilt and the earth will testify against them. 00:10:59.727 --> 00:11:01.857 A flood will sweep away their house. 00:11:02.397 --> 00:11:04.197 God's anger will descend on them. 00:11:04.197 --> 00:11:05.007 In Torrance. 00:11:05.667 --> 00:11:08.307 This is the reward that God gives the wicked. 00:11:08.787 --> 00:11:11.397 It is the inheritance Decreed by God. 00:11:13.107 --> 00:11:15.957 This concludes today's Immer Reading experience. 00:11:16.107 --> 00:11:17.307 Thank you for joining us.