1 00:00:00,780 --> 00:00:04,980 Hi, I'm Kerry Duke, host of My God in My Neighbor podcast from Tennessee 2 00:00:04,980 --> 00:00:09,420 Bible College, where we see the Bible as not just another book, but the Book. 3 00:00:09,820 --> 00:00:13,670 Join us in a study of the inspired Word to strengthen your faith and to 4 00:00:13,670 --> 00:00:15,279 share what you've learned with others. 5 00:00:17,570 --> 00:00:19,130 Job lost everything. 6 00:00:19,570 --> 00:00:20,790 He lost his workers. 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:22,520 He lost his livestock. 8 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:24,280 He lost his 10 children. 9 00:00:24,770 --> 00:00:28,139 Then he lost his health due to a terrible disease. 10 00:00:28,710 --> 00:00:31,680 Then his three friends came, the Bible says, to mourn 11 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:33,499 with him and to comfort him. 12 00:00:34,029 --> 00:00:38,390 And yet when Job began to complain in Job chapter three and wish that 13 00:00:38,390 --> 00:00:42,600 he were dead, the Bible says that his friends began to criticize him. 14 00:00:42,990 --> 00:00:46,610 They began to judge him, and in Job chapter four, the first 15 00:00:46,610 --> 00:00:48,230 one to speak was Eliphaz. 16 00:00:48,370 --> 00:00:53,870 Eliphaz said in Job chapter four, verse eight, “They that plow iniquity 17 00:00:54,250 --> 00:00:56,980 and sow wickedness, reap the same. 18 00:00:57,450 --> 00:01:03,889 He is implying here: Job, you are a sinner and you are reaping what you have sown. 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:09,679 So all the way through the Book of Job, you find that there is a serious argument 20 00:01:09,710 --> 00:01:11,800 between Job and his three friends. 21 00:01:12,289 --> 00:01:16,250 His three friends try to convince him that he ought to admit that he's 22 00:01:16,250 --> 00:01:20,390 a sinner and then God will forgive him and God will restore his health. 23 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:24,779 Job said I can't plead guilty to something that I'm innocent of. 24 00:01:25,380 --> 00:01:29,230 Now Job knew that he was not a perfect man in the sense of being sinless. 25 00:01:29,670 --> 00:01:34,350 He knew that he had made mistakes in his life, but Job said I cannot 26 00:01:34,350 --> 00:01:38,170 agree with you that God is punishing me because I have been such a 27 00:01:38,170 --> 00:01:40,150 hypocrite and such an evil man. 28 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,710 So in Job chapter six, Job responds to what Eliphaz has said. 29 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,600 And in Job chapter six, he begins to talk about his grief. 30 00:01:50,030 --> 00:01:55,039 Job chapter six, verse two: “Oh, that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my 31 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,149 calamity laid in the balances together. 32 00:01:57,309 --> 00:02:00,400 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea. 33 00:02:00,610 --> 00:02:06,459 Therefore my words are swallowed up, for the arrows of the Almighty are within me. 34 00:02:06,770 --> 00:02:09,440 The poison whereof drinks up my spirit. 35 00:02:09,610 --> 00:02:13,460 The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.” 36 00:02:13,860 --> 00:02:18,540 Now notice here that Job again thinks that God is doing this to him. 37 00:02:18,980 --> 00:02:22,670 He does not consider that Satan might be involved in this. 38 00:02:22,809 --> 00:02:26,709 You and I know that Satan was behind all this, but Job doesn't know that. 39 00:02:26,890 --> 00:02:30,690 So the first thing he thinks of is: Why is God doing this? 40 00:02:31,020 --> 00:02:34,200 And I believe that many times that's our tendency. 41 00:02:34,990 --> 00:02:39,079 We are prone to think when something bad happens that God is doing it. 42 00:02:39,089 --> 00:02:41,559 So why is God doing this to me? 43 00:02:42,070 --> 00:02:44,930 Sometimes we don't even entertain the possibility that 44 00:02:44,930 --> 00:02:46,410 the devil might be behind it. 45 00:02:47,130 --> 00:02:51,290 Job said in Job chapter six, verse eight, “Oh, that I might have my 46 00:02:51,290 --> 00:02:56,100 request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for.” 47 00:02:56,690 --> 00:02:57,969 What is your request Job? 48 00:02:58,410 --> 00:03:00,149 What is it that you're longing for? 49 00:03:00,359 --> 00:03:04,810 He tells us in verse nine: “Even that it would please God to destroy 50 00:03:04,850 --> 00:03:10,090 me, that he would loose his hand and cut me off.” Job wants to die. 51 00:03:10,420 --> 00:03:12,799 He is asking God for his death. 52 00:03:13,210 --> 00:03:16,209 Now again, he's not the first one or the only one that we 53 00:03:16,209 --> 00:03:17,609 read in the Bible who did that. 54 00:03:17,879 --> 00:03:19,679 Moses asked God if he could die. 55 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,510 Elijah wanted to die and he prayed to God for that. 56 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:28,480 Job is in such pain, he is in such misery, that the only kind of relief 57 00:03:28,490 --> 00:03:30,449 that he thinks he can get is to die. 58 00:03:30,990 --> 00:03:34,190 In Job chapter seven, here's how he describes his suffering. 59 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:41,090 He said in Job chapter seven, verse three: “So I am made to possess months of vanity 60 00:03:41,390 --> 00:03:44,140 and wearisome nights are appointed to me.” 61 00:03:44,460 --> 00:03:45,830 I can't get any rest. 62 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:47,630 I can't sleep at night. 63 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,630 This is going on continually. 64 00:03:50,030 --> 00:03:54,140 And the Bible says in Job chapter seven, verse 11 that he said these words, 65 00:03:54,329 --> 00:04:00,390 “Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. 66 00:04:00,650 --> 00:04:05,420 I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.” You see, what his friends were 67 00:04:05,420 --> 00:04:07,660 trying to get him to do was to be quiet. 68 00:04:08,130 --> 00:04:09,480 They were telling him to shut up. 69 00:04:10,029 --> 00:04:15,610 They were telling him to humble himself before God and to say I'm guilty and to 70 00:04:15,610 --> 00:04:17,820 repent, and then God would forgive him. 71 00:04:18,250 --> 00:04:22,719 But he goes on to say that God is after him here in verse 12 of chapter seven. 72 00:04:22,719 --> 00:04:28,629 He says, “Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?” Are you hunting me? 73 00:04:28,629 --> 00:04:30,630 In other words, like men hunt whales. 74 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:32,410 That's what Job is saying to God. 75 00:04:33,110 --> 00:04:37,510 Now after Job gives his defense in chapter seven, Bildad is the second 76 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:42,419 one to speak, and the Bible says in Job chapter eight, verses one and two: 77 00:04:42,809 --> 00:04:47,309 “Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said, How long will you speak these 78 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:52,599 things, and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?” 79 00:04:53,110 --> 00:04:55,340 What he's saying is: you're just full of wind. 80 00:04:55,890 --> 00:04:57,610 You're just full of hot air job. 81 00:04:58,010 --> 00:05:00,899 Quit talking and do what we tell you to do. 82 00:05:01,170 --> 00:05:04,669 You just need to admit that you're wrong and you need to repent. 83 00:05:05,109 --> 00:05:08,470 And notice again how cold and calloused these men who are 84 00:05:08,470 --> 00:05:09,880 supposed to be his friends are. 85 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,420 Remember that Job has lost his 10 children. 86 00:05:12,780 --> 00:05:17,049 Look at what Bildad says to his friend here who is suffering more than Bildad 87 00:05:17,370 --> 00:05:19,580 had ever, or probably would ever, suffer. 88 00:05:19,590 --> 00:05:24,289 In Job chapter eight, verse three: “Does God pervert judgment? Or does 89 00:05:24,309 --> 00:05:28,830 the Almighty pervert justice? If your children have sinned against him, 90 00:05:29,210 --> 00:05:34,090 and he have cast them away for their transgressions, if you would seek unto 91 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:39,469 God be times and make your supplication to the Almighty,” he says, and goes on 92 00:05:39,469 --> 00:05:41,850 to explain, then God would restore you. 93 00:05:42,410 --> 00:05:45,580 Notice that he says in verse four: Look, if your children have done something 94 00:05:45,580 --> 00:05:50,260 wrong and God has punished them for that, you just need to admit you're wrong. 95 00:05:50,630 --> 00:05:55,009 You need to admit that you are out of place and then God will restore you. 96 00:05:55,740 --> 00:06:00,890 In chapter nine, Job responds to him, and when he responds, he cannot figure 97 00:06:00,910 --> 00:06:02,849 out why God will not answer him. 98 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:06,910 You see, Job has been pleading with God: answer me, help me. 99 00:06:07,150 --> 00:06:10,709 But God won't say anything and Job is getting frustrated here. 100 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:11,989 Now any of us would. 101 00:06:12,550 --> 00:06:16,269 Any of us in his situation probably would've done worse than what Job did 102 00:06:16,270 --> 00:06:20,719 because Job was a man that God said there was none like him in the earth. 103 00:06:21,420 --> 00:06:26,970 And so Job chapter nine shows us that Job is getting frustrated, and in Job 104 00:06:26,970 --> 00:06:33,060 chapter nine, verse 32, he says, “For he is not a man,” that is, God is not a man 105 00:06:33,339 --> 00:06:37,360 “as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.” 106 00:06:37,820 --> 00:06:42,420 In other words, he's saying I can't just go to God, walk up to him and say 107 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,159 I need to sit down and talk with you. 108 00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:46,459 It doesn't work that way with the Almighty. 109 00:06:47,059 --> 00:06:51,249 And not only that, he says, “But,” in verse 33, “neither is there any 110 00:06:51,259 --> 00:06:56,410 days man betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.” By a 111 00:06:56,410 --> 00:06:58,260 “days man” he means a mediator. 112 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,800 He means what we would call an umpire—somebody that would be a 113 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,700 go-between between himself and God. 114 00:07:04,940 --> 00:07:07,669 So Job is saying I'm trying to find God. 115 00:07:07,799 --> 00:07:11,399 I'm trying to find out why He's doing this to me, but I just can't 116 00:07:11,410 --> 00:07:13,159 walk up to him like I would a man. 117 00:07:13,380 --> 00:07:17,680 Not only that, I can't find anybody on earth that would represent me 118 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,600 to God and let me talk to him. 119 00:07:20,070 --> 00:07:24,790 So in Job chapter 10 he says again [Job chapter 10, verse one], “My soul 120 00:07:24,809 --> 00:07:30,140 is weary of my life.” He's tired of living. “I will leave my complaint upon 121 00:07:30,140 --> 00:07:35,609 myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.” And then he begins to talk 122 00:07:35,620 --> 00:07:39,040 about what he thinks God has done to him, and he uses all these figures. 123 00:07:39,510 --> 00:07:44,560 He says in Job chapter 10, verse 10 [he's talking to God]: “Have you not 124 00:07:44,570 --> 00:07:51,650 poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese?” In verse 16, he says, “You 125 00:07:51,650 --> 00:07:56,350 hunt me as a fierce lion.” And you'll notice that this book is full of images 126 00:07:56,350 --> 00:07:58,830 and illustrations and figures of speech. 127 00:07:58,950 --> 00:08:02,820 Remember, this is in a section that many people call Hebrew poetry. 128 00:08:02,969 --> 00:08:05,820 It doesn't mean that it rhymes as far as sound is concerned. 129 00:08:06,029 --> 00:08:08,680 It means that it has a special way of expressing itself. 130 00:08:09,010 --> 00:08:13,270 So think about what Job has said about God and what he thinks 131 00:08:13,270 --> 00:08:14,840 God is doing to him so far. 132 00:08:14,940 --> 00:08:18,509 Just in this lesson, he said that God was shooting arrows at him 133 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,649 like a man would have a bow and arrows shooting them at a target. 134 00:08:22,029 --> 00:08:24,960 He says that God is hunting me like a whale at sea. 135 00:08:25,370 --> 00:08:27,820 He says that God has poured me out like milk. 136 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:32,669 He says that God is hunting me like a lion, and he again asks the question, 137 00:08:32,820 --> 00:08:39,429 “Why, God?” Why? [verse 18] “Why then have you brought me forth out of the 138 00:08:39,429 --> 00:08:44,480 womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost and no eye had seen me.” I wish 139 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:46,810 that I had died before I was born. 140 00:08:47,170 --> 00:08:52,419 So he says in verse 20, “Are not my days few?” And that's how he felt. Job 141 00:08:52,420 --> 00:08:56,560 felt that he didn't have very long to live and he didn't want to live much 142 00:08:56,560 --> 00:09:02,850 longer. And so he says, “Let me alone.” Sometimes people get to the point to where 143 00:09:03,010 --> 00:09:05,010 that's the very feeling that they have. 144 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,230 Just leave me alone and let me die. 145 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:12,609 Leave me alone “that I may take a little comfort before I go whence I 146 00:09:12,610 --> 00:09:17,270 shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, a 147 00:09:17,270 --> 00:09:21,839 land of darkness as darkness itself.” And no sooner does he make his case 148 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,250 than Zophar steps up to the plate. 149 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,060 Now remember, it goes in this order. 150 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:27,300 Eliphaz speaks. 151 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,470 Job responds, Bildad speaks. 152 00:09:29,639 --> 00:09:30,610 Job responds. 153 00:09:30,759 --> 00:09:31,910 Zophar speaks. 154 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,730 And what does Zophar far have to say? 155 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,449 Really, not anything different from what Eliphaz and Bildad said. 156 00:09:37,780 --> 00:09:42,160 The Bible says in chapter 11, verse one, “Then answered Zophar the 157 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:46,339 Naamathite and said, “Should not the multitude of words be answered. 158 00:09:46,719 --> 00:09:49,649 And should a man full of talk be justified? 159 00:09:49,950 --> 00:09:54,610 Should your lies make men hold their peace?” So he says, 160 00:09:54,610 --> 00:09:55,610 you're just full of talk. 161 00:09:55,810 --> 00:09:58,740 You're full of hot air, and not only that, you're a liar. 162 00:09:58,980 --> 00:10:00,240 You're lying about this. 163 00:10:00,850 --> 00:10:05,979 And to really make his point about reaping what you have sown, he goes 164 00:10:06,009 --> 00:10:08,589 beyond what Eliphaz and Bildad said. 165 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,269 Now, Eliphaz said Job you're getting what you deserve. 166 00:10:11,500 --> 00:10:12,940 You brought this on yourself. 167 00:10:13,580 --> 00:10:16,530 But Zophar in verse six says this. 168 00:10:16,930 --> 00:10:22,160 He says he wished that God would show him “the secrets of wisdom, that they are 169 00:10:22,170 --> 00:10:28,439 double to that which is. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your 170 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:33,240 iniquity deserves.” In other words, God is not giving you as much as you deserve. 171 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,190 You deserve more than this. 172 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,670 If God really punished you, you would be suffering worse than you are. 173 00:10:40,130 --> 00:10:43,219 And it's hard to see how he could be suffering any worse than what he was, 174 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:45,140 but that's what Zophar is saying here. 175 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,040 You see, the longer the argument goes, the worse it gets. 176 00:10:48,570 --> 00:10:53,210 The more they argue, the more intense it gets, and the more exaggerated 177 00:10:53,210 --> 00:10:56,300 they are in what they say, the madder they get at each other, and 178 00:10:56,300 --> 00:10:57,930 it just gets more and more serious. 179 00:10:57,980 --> 00:10:59,909 It just continues to go downhill. 180 00:10:59,990 --> 00:11:02,110 And we're just getting the start of that here. 181 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:07,680 Verse 14 of chapter 11—Zophar said to Job, “If iniquity be in your hand, put 182 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:12,320 it far away.” In other words, you just need to repent. And then he says in verse 183 00:11:12,330 --> 00:11:17,089 15, “Then you shall lift up your face without spot.” Then you're going to be 184 00:11:17,090 --> 00:11:18,750 restored and things will be well with you. 185 00:11:19,290 --> 00:11:21,300 Job again answers in Job chapter 12. 186 00:11:21,650 --> 00:11:24,709 And here's what he says in Job chapter 12 verse two. 187 00:11:25,220 --> 00:11:29,370 “No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.” 188 00:11:29,780 --> 00:11:32,810 He's saying: you think you're the only wise people on the earth. 189 00:11:33,420 --> 00:11:38,069 You think that when you die there won't be any wisdom left because you have it all. 190 00:11:38,230 --> 00:11:41,580 You've got the market cornered on wisdom, so no doubt but you're the 191 00:11:41,580 --> 00:11:45,090 people, you're the wise ones, and you're supposed to be instructing me. 192 00:11:45,370 --> 00:11:46,849 So they've criticized Job. 193 00:11:46,860 --> 00:11:48,420 They have cut him with words. 194 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:50,110 And now job is cutting back. 195 00:11:50,450 --> 00:11:56,410 He's using sarcasm, and that's oftentimes the way that a disagreement goes when 196 00:11:56,410 --> 00:11:57,959 two people don't listen to each other. 197 00:11:58,109 --> 00:12:01,250 Instead of using plain talk, they start cutting each other. 198 00:12:01,250 --> 00:12:05,790 They start using sarcasm, and that's what happens here in Job chapter 12. 199 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:10,290 But Job reminds them in verse three, “I have understanding as well as you. 200 00:12:10,790 --> 00:12:14,609 I am not inferior to you.” Job is saying I know all this that you're 201 00:12:14,610 --> 00:12:18,250 talking about, that a man reaps what he sows, but that does not apply to me. 202 00:12:18,530 --> 00:12:23,070 And then in chapter 13, verse two, he says, “What you know the same do I 203 00:12:23,070 --> 00:12:25,770 know also, I am not inferior to you.” 204 00:12:26,170 --> 00:12:32,350 Then in verse four he says, “But you are forgers of lies.” You three are lying 205 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,979 about this. You're lying about me. And then he says, “You are all physicians 206 00:12:38,110 --> 00:12:41,000 of no value.” You're here to fix me. 207 00:12:41,350 --> 00:12:42,689 You're here to help me. 208 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,100 You're here to straighten me out, and you're making it worse. 209 00:12:46,460 --> 00:12:48,680 You're like doctors who are worthless. 210 00:12:48,719 --> 00:12:50,689 You are worthless physicians. 211 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:54,480 In verse 13, he says to these three friends, “Hold your peace. 212 00:12:54,730 --> 00:12:59,670 Let me alone that I may speak and let come on me what will.” Verse 15: 213 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,980 He says, “Though he slay me,” [he's talking about God] even if God kills 214 00:13:03,980 --> 00:13:08,800 me, “Yet will I trust in him; but I will maintain my own ways before 215 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:15,270 him.” In verse 21, he pleads with God, “Withdraw your hand far from me.” 216 00:13:15,710 --> 00:13:19,520 And in verse 23, he somewhat challenges God here. 217 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:21,780 That is, if I'm wrong, show me. 218 00:13:22,130 --> 00:13:26,760 In verse 23: “How many are mine iniquities? Make me to know my 219 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:31,670 transgression and my sin.” Tell me and show me why You're doing this to me. 220 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,130 If I have done something wrong to deserve this, then show it to me. 221 00:13:35,130 --> 00:13:39,589 And the implication is if I haven't done anything wrong to that level, 222 00:13:39,870 --> 00:13:41,309 then why are You doing this to me? 223 00:13:41,809 --> 00:13:46,430 In verse 24 not only is he pleading with God to show him why he's 224 00:13:46,459 --> 00:13:50,069 doing this, but he wants to know why God will not answer him. 225 00:13:50,330 --> 00:13:56,470 Verse 24: “Wherefore do you hide your face and hold me for your enemy?” You 226 00:13:56,470 --> 00:14:00,620 keep me at arm's length, you won't let me talk to you and you won't answer 227 00:14:00,620 --> 00:14:04,900 me. And he says in verse 26 “For you, write bitter things against me.” 228 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,010 And what that means is you are just holding something against me here. 229 00:14:08,370 --> 00:14:10,560 It can't be because I'm such a bad man. 230 00:14:10,570 --> 00:14:14,740 Now, it must be that, he says, “you make me to possess the iniquities 231 00:14:15,410 --> 00:14:16,860 of my youth.” Maybe that's it. 232 00:14:16,929 --> 00:14:18,909 He's saying I know I haven't done anything. 233 00:14:18,910 --> 00:14:22,779 Now I know I'm not perfect, but I know I'm not an evil hypocrite. 234 00:14:23,020 --> 00:14:27,150 So maybe You're getting back at me for something that I did when I was young. 235 00:14:27,330 --> 00:14:30,329 He's looking for anything to make sense of his suffering here. 236 00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:35,099 And in chapter 14, he says about life in general something that is very 237 00:14:35,099 --> 00:14:37,820 true in Job chapter 14, verse one. 238 00:14:38,299 --> 00:14:43,930 “Man that is born of a woman is a few days and full of trouble. He comes forth 239 00:14:43,930 --> 00:14:48,890 like a flower and is cut down. He flees also as a shadow and continues not.” 240 00:14:49,350 --> 00:14:53,450 In chapter 14, he begins to talk about the fact that as long as a man lives, 241 00:14:53,690 --> 00:14:57,809 he has hope on this earth, but when he dies, he's not coming back to the earth. 242 00:14:58,209 --> 00:15:00,890 And that is the chapter where you find these words that 243 00:15:00,890 --> 00:15:02,240 are familiar to many people. 244 00:15:02,510 --> 00:15:08,180 Job chapter 14, verse 14: “If a man die, shall he live again?” Now, the thing 245 00:15:08,180 --> 00:15:10,560 to remember about this is the context. 246 00:15:10,710 --> 00:15:13,430 Job has been talking about the fact that once you die, you're 247 00:15:13,430 --> 00:15:14,890 not coming back to the earth. 248 00:15:15,270 --> 00:15:20,160 You're not going to get a second chance on the earth to live and to prosper and to 249 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,450 correct things, and to have a good life. 250 00:15:22,750 --> 00:15:25,170 Now, there were people that were raised from the dead, but Job is 251 00:15:25,180 --> 00:15:28,259 stating a general truth here that when you die, you don't come back. 252 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:32,160 You see, in Job chapter 14 verse 14, Job is not asking 253 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:33,700 this question to get an answer. 254 00:15:34,070 --> 00:15:36,939 He is not asking this question because he doesn't know. 255 00:15:37,230 --> 00:15:40,950 He's not saying, “Well, I wonder if a man will live after he dies.” 256 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:42,720 That is not what he's talking about. 257 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:44,500 He's already given the answer. 258 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:47,520 This is what we would call a rhetorical question. 259 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,969 It is a question that answers itself. 260 00:15:50,259 --> 00:15:52,729 It is a question that actually makes a statement. 261 00:15:52,889 --> 00:15:56,840 What he's saying is, if a man dies, he will not live again, and 262 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:58,319 that applied to his situation. 263 00:15:58,530 --> 00:15:59,949 So he's longing for death. 264 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,680 He doesn't have a time that he's going to come back and live on this earth. 265 00:16:03,910 --> 00:16:05,330 That's how he's looking at this. 266 00:16:05,580 --> 00:16:10,990 So chapter 14 ends with Job holding his ground, and that is the end of the first 267 00:16:10,990 --> 00:16:13,260 round or the first cycle in this argument. 268 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,199 So when we get to chapter 15, we find the second round begins with 269 00:16:17,209 --> 00:16:19,689 Eliphaz again the first speaker. 270 00:16:19,850 --> 00:16:23,870 Notice how similar they are in the way that they describe Job. 271 00:16:24,179 --> 00:16:28,555 In Job chapter 15, verse one, “Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and 272 00:16:28,660 --> 00:16:33,590 said, Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with 273 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,850 the east wind?” You’re a windbag Job. 274 00:16:36,850 --> 00:16:37,880 You're full of hot air. 275 00:16:37,940 --> 00:16:39,869 Instead of talking, you need to listen. 276 00:16:40,410 --> 00:16:44,680 He says in verse three, “Should he reason with unprofitable talk?” He 277 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,439 says in verse five, “For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose 278 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,640 the tongue of the crafty.” As a matter of fact, he says in verse six, 279 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,200 Job, your own mouth condemns you. 280 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,480 And he says beginning in verse seven, “Are you the first man that was born 281 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:00,699 or were you made before the hills? 282 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:02,590 Have you heard the secret of God? 283 00:17:02,710 --> 00:17:04,619 Do you restrain wisdom to yourself? 284 00:17:04,789 --> 00:17:06,230 What do you know that we don't know? 285 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,469 What do you understand, which is not in us? 286 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:13,510 With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much older than your father.” 287 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,969 He tells Job again you're reaping what you sown because this is 288 00:17:16,969 --> 00:17:18,420 what happens to bad people. 289 00:17:18,660 --> 00:17:22,150 In Job chapter 15, verse 20, Eliphaz said the wicked man 290 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,839 travails with pain all his days. 291 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,380 He's talking to a man who's in misery. 292 00:17:27,460 --> 00:17:30,240 He's talking to a man who is in all kinds of pain. 293 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,729 In verse 24, Eliphaz says to him, “Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid. 294 00:17:36,130 --> 00:17:39,129 They shall prevail against him as a king ready to the battle. 295 00:17:39,670 --> 00:17:44,740 For He stretches out his hand against God and strengthens himself against 296 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:49,580 the Almighty.” Eliphaz is accusing Job of stretching out his hand against 297 00:17:49,580 --> 00:17:54,399 God, of rebelling against God, of fighting against God, and he says 298 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:55,739 he's going to suffer because of it. 299 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:01,080 “He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue.” This 300 00:18:01,090 --> 00:18:02,679 is exactly what happened to Job. 301 00:18:02,690 --> 00:18:04,189 He lost all that he had. 302 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:08,270 In Job chapter 15, verse 34, Eliphaz uses the word hypocrite. 303 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:12,700 He says, “For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and 304 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:17,990 fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.” So he's saying by implication 305 00:18:17,990 --> 00:18:20,510 here, Job, you are a hypocrite. 306 00:18:20,660 --> 00:18:25,250 And then Job responds to him in chapter 16 and chapter 17, and the argument 307 00:18:25,250 --> 00:18:28,229 continues in Job chapter 16 verse one. 308 00:18:28,230 --> 00:18:33,940 Job answered and said, “I have heard many such things: miserable comforters 309 00:18:34,139 --> 00:18:37,890 are you all.” Do you remember why these three men came to see Job? 310 00:18:38,350 --> 00:18:43,620 The Bible says in Job chapter two, verse 11 they made an appointment together to 311 00:18:43,620 --> 00:18:46,819 come to mourn with him and to comfort him. 312 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:51,889 So Job is saying if you're here to comfort me, you're doing a miserable job. 313 00:18:52,029 --> 00:18:53,979 You are miserable comforters. 314 00:18:54,219 --> 00:18:55,230 He's cutting them. 315 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:56,709 He is tired. 316 00:18:56,860 --> 00:18:58,470 He's getting very frustrated. 317 00:18:58,750 --> 00:19:00,950 He knows he is right, but they won't listen. 318 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,929 And on top of that, God will not answer him. 319 00:19:04,210 --> 00:19:07,600 So here are some things that he says about God in Job chapter 320 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:09,300 16, beginning in verse nine. 321 00:19:09,530 --> 00:19:14,150 “He tears me in his wrath who hates me. He gnashes upon me with his 322 00:19:14,150 --> 00:19:20,149 teeth. My enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.” In verse 11: “God has delivered 323 00:19:20,150 --> 00:19:24,529 me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 324 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,719 I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder. 325 00:19:28,059 --> 00:19:33,040 He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark. 326 00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:37,370 His archers compass me round about, and he cleaves my reins 327 00:19:37,410 --> 00:19:39,200 asunder and does not spare. 328 00:19:39,380 --> 00:19:41,529 He pours out my gall upon the ground. 329 00:19:41,719 --> 00:19:44,140 He breaks me with a breach upon breach. 330 00:19:44,259 --> 00:19:49,130 He runs upon me like a giant,” and again, he emphasizes in verse 17 that 331 00:19:49,130 --> 00:19:50,830 it was not because he was at fault. 332 00:19:51,170 --> 00:19:55,860 In verse 17, he says all this is not for “any injustice in my hands.” I 333 00:19:55,860 --> 00:19:57,550 didn't do anything to deserve this. 334 00:19:57,929 --> 00:20:03,210 Then in verse 20, he says, “My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears unto 335 00:20:03,210 --> 00:20:08,500 God. Oh, that one might plead for a man with God as a man pleads for his neighbor. 336 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:14,459 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.” 337 00:20:14,740 --> 00:20:19,170 In chapter 17, he talks about what God has done to him in his thinking. 338 00:20:19,349 --> 00:20:20,860 This is what God was doing. 339 00:20:21,219 --> 00:20:26,240 Verse six: “He has made me also a byword of the people and aforetime I was as a 340 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:32,200 tabret. Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.” In verse 10: “But as for 341 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:37,739 you all, do you return and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among 342 00:20:37,740 --> 00:20:42,169 you”. I can't find a reasonable person among you friends of mine.” “My days 343 00:20:42,170 --> 00:20:44,679 are past, my purposes are broken off. 344 00:20:44,870 --> 00:20:48,530 Even the thoughts of my heart, they change the night into day, the 345 00:20:48,530 --> 00:20:50,250 light is short because of darkness. 346 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,760 If I wait, the grave is my house. 347 00:20:52,990 --> 00:20:54,950 I have made my bed in the darkness. 348 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:57,420 I have said to corruption, you're my father. 349 00:20:57,420 --> 00:20:59,929 To the worm, you are my mother and my sister. 350 00:21:00,209 --> 00:21:01,600 And where is now my hope? 351 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,980 As for my hope, who shall see it? 352 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,940 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is 353 00:21:07,950 --> 00:21:12,020 in the dust.” Now that is what Job said to Eliphaz about his accusation. 354 00:21:12,309 --> 00:21:16,079 That brings us to chapter 18, and now Bildad speaks. 355 00:21:16,389 --> 00:21:20,000 He says in verse two, “How long will it be ere you make an end 356 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,550 of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.” He begins to try Job. 357 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:28,960 He begins to accuse him and warn him that his suffering is what 358 00:21:28,969 --> 00:21:30,650 happens to people who are evil. 359 00:21:30,929 --> 00:21:35,749 In verse five, he says yes, “the light of the wicked shall be put out.” Verse 360 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:40,330 seven: “The steps of his strength shall be straightened and his own counsel shall 361 00:21:40,330 --> 00:21:45,770 cast him down, for he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a 362 00:21:45,770 --> 00:21:48,380 snare.” In verse 15, he gets even rougher. 363 00:21:48,710 --> 00:21:53,379 “It shall be in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall 364 00:21:53,389 --> 00:21:55,500 be scattered upon his habitation.” 365 00:21:55,990 --> 00:22:00,830 Then he says in verse 19, “He shall have neither son nor nephew among his people, 366 00:22:01,010 --> 00:22:07,240 nor any remaining in his dwelling”. In verse 21, he warns Job, “Surely such are 367 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:12,990 the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that does not know God.” 368 00:22:13,310 --> 00:22:16,120 That ends Bildad's case in chapter 18. 369 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,420 Now in chapter 19, Job responds again and he will not agree 370 00:22:20,420 --> 00:22:21,280 with what they're saying. 371 00:22:21,570 --> 00:22:22,670 He defends himself. 372 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,920 Chapter 19 is a sad story because here job is expressing his grief. 373 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,439 He's crying out to these people in a sense. 374 00:22:30,620 --> 00:22:35,370 He's asking them for mercy, and one of the things that you'll find here in chapter 19 375 00:22:35,620 --> 00:22:38,230 is that he's beginning to feel all alone. 376 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,809 He's felt that before, but he comes right out and talks about it here. 377 00:22:42,290 --> 00:22:47,869 In Job chapter 19 verse one: “Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex 378 00:22:47,869 --> 00:22:50,530 my soul and break me in pieces with words? 379 00:22:50,740 --> 00:22:54,870 These ten times have you reproached me.” And then he says in verse six, 380 00:22:55,140 --> 00:22:59,929 “Now know that God has overthrown me and has compassed me” or 381 00:22:59,929 --> 00:23:02,020 surrounded me, that is, with His net. 382 00:23:02,420 --> 00:23:05,359 So here he definitely says God is doing this. 383 00:23:05,750 --> 00:23:07,020 God has cast me down. 384 00:23:07,220 --> 00:23:11,310 God is punishing me, and of course in the background of his mind 385 00:23:11,490 --> 00:23:13,360 is that he can't figure out why. 386 00:23:13,740 --> 00:23:18,340 In verse seven he says, “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. 387 00:23:18,660 --> 00:23:20,630 I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. 388 00:23:20,950 --> 00:23:25,629 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths. 389 00:23:25,980 --> 00:23:29,199 He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head. 390 00:23:29,390 --> 00:23:32,040 He has destroyed me on every side.” 391 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,340 Now this is what he says about God in verse 11: “He has also kindled 392 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:40,199 his wrath against me.” Then he begins to talk about the fact that 393 00:23:40,199 --> 00:23:41,940 nobody wants anything to do with him. 394 00:23:42,310 --> 00:23:46,720 Even his relatives and his servants and his friends have forsaken him. 395 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,060 He feels isolated. 396 00:23:48,070 --> 00:23:49,280 He feels all alone. 397 00:23:49,330 --> 00:23:50,179 Look at verse 13. 398 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:55,209 “He has put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily 399 00:23:55,250 --> 00:23:59,760 estranged from me. “My kinsfolk,” he says in verse 14, “have failed, and 400 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:04,410 my familiar friends have forgotten me.” Verse 15: “They that dwell in 401 00:24:04,410 --> 00:24:09,830 my house and my maids count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.” 402 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:15,360 “I called my servant and he gave me no answer. I entreated him with 403 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:20,790 my mouth.” Verse 17: “My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated 404 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,820 for the children's sake of my own body.” In verse 18 he said yes, 405 00:24:24,850 --> 00:24:28,950 “Young children despise me. I arose and they spoke against me.” Verse 19: 406 00:24:29,730 --> 00:24:32,259 “All my inward friends abhorred me. 407 00:24:32,799 --> 00:24:35,109 They whom I loved are turned against me. 408 00:24:35,379 --> 00:24:38,600 Any one of the sufferings that Job went through would 409 00:24:38,610 --> 00:24:40,470 be overwhelming for any of us. 410 00:24:40,510 --> 00:24:45,240 But think about what he endured: financial loss, the loss of his children to 411 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,940 death, a chronic, devastating illness. 412 00:24:47,980 --> 00:24:52,989 So he had financial stress, he had the grief to go with it, he had physical pain 413 00:24:53,010 --> 00:24:58,660 and emotional trauma, and now he talks about the fact that no one helped him. 414 00:24:59,090 --> 00:25:02,130 Evidently, nobody said a comforting word to this man. 415 00:25:02,330 --> 00:25:04,120 In fact, they criticized him. 416 00:25:04,429 --> 00:25:05,770 They disrespected him. 417 00:25:05,910 --> 00:25:10,600 And we're talking about, as he says here in chapter 19, his kinfolk, his 418 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,900 friends, his servants that he paid. 419 00:25:12,910 --> 00:25:16,970 By the way, children were all ashamed of him, and there's not 420 00:25:16,970 --> 00:25:20,730 one supportive thing his wife said to him, at least in this book. 421 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,179 So he's suffering financially, he's suffering physically, 422 00:25:24,380 --> 00:25:28,050 he's suffering emotionally, and now he's suffering socially. 423 00:25:28,350 --> 00:25:32,050 In verse 21, you read these heartbreaking words, “Have pity 424 00:25:32,050 --> 00:25:34,180 upon me, have pity upon me. 425 00:25:34,270 --> 00:25:37,430 O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me. 426 00:25:37,690 --> 00:25:42,079 Why do you persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh? 427 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:46,590 Oh, that my words were now written, O, that they were printed in a book, that 428 00:25:46,590 --> 00:25:50,950 they were graved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever.” But even though 429 00:25:51,030 --> 00:25:56,230 he is very angry, he is very depressed, he still says that he believes in God 430 00:25:56,370 --> 00:25:58,479 and he still puts his faith in the Lord. 431 00:25:58,630 --> 00:26:03,059 In verses 25 and 26, you have one of the greatest faith 432 00:26:03,070 --> 00:26:05,139 statements anywhere in the Bible. 433 00:26:05,139 --> 00:26:07,540 And remember the kind of shape this man is in. 434 00:26:07,540 --> 00:26:11,840 He's not in good condition at this point in any way whatsoever, and 435 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,270 yet he's pledging his faith in God. 436 00:26:14,550 --> 00:26:19,330 This is Job 19:25 and 26, and you'll recognize some of these 437 00:26:19,330 --> 00:26:22,929 words from a song that we sometimes sing at church in verse 25. 438 00:26:23,309 --> 00:26:28,190 He said, “For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at 439 00:26:28,190 --> 00:26:32,100 the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy 440 00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:37,370 this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God.” So job held on to his faith. 441 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:39,610 He would not turn his back on God. 442 00:26:39,719 --> 00:26:41,640 He would not turn against God. 443 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,719 He does say some things here in this book that were wrong, that crossed 444 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,280 the line, because of his anger. 445 00:26:47,620 --> 00:26:52,069 But as far as his overall faith is concerned, he holds onto that faith. 446 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:56,220 How many people would give up on God and maybe even become 447 00:26:56,230 --> 00:26:59,980 atheists if they went through just one of the things that Job did? 448 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,190 How many Christians would turn their back on God if they went through 449 00:27:04,190 --> 00:27:05,870 what Job has experienced here? 450 00:27:06,130 --> 00:27:09,929 This man is a great example of suffering and patience and suffering. 451 00:27:09,940 --> 00:27:14,269 That's why the Bible says in James chapter five, verse 11: “You have heard 452 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,149 of the patience of Job.” Many times we think that patience means that you 453 00:27:18,150 --> 00:27:20,060 never lose your cool about anything. 454 00:27:20,270 --> 00:27:21,500 And that's an element of it. 455 00:27:21,670 --> 00:27:22,770 That's an aspect of it. 456 00:27:23,050 --> 00:27:25,820 But if you really want to see what patience is all about, 457 00:27:25,980 --> 00:27:27,999 just look at the life of Job. 458 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,740 Sometimes he lost his cool. 459 00:27:29,830 --> 00:27:32,229 Sometimes he said some things that were sarcastic. 460 00:27:32,450 --> 00:27:34,610 But overall, he never quit. 461 00:27:34,770 --> 00:27:35,759 He endured. 462 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:38,159 That's what patience is in the Bible. 463 00:27:38,170 --> 00:27:41,629 It means to endure, and Christians need this kind of example. 464 00:27:41,860 --> 00:27:45,929 Do you remember that Jesus warned about falling away in times of trial? 465 00:27:46,170 --> 00:27:50,499 In Matthew chapter 13, verse 21, he talks about the seed that fell on 466 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:54,449 the stony ground, and he described people like this in the following way. 467 00:27:54,750 --> 00:28:00,470 In Matthew 13 verse 21, he said, “Yet he has no root in himself, but endures 468 00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:05,490 for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the 469 00:28:05,490 --> 00:28:10,539 word, immediately he is offended.” Sometimes Christians do well in the 470 00:28:10,539 --> 00:28:15,160 Christian life for a while, but when hard times strike, then they fall away. 471 00:28:15,430 --> 00:28:16,900 We need to be like Job. 472 00:28:17,030 --> 00:28:18,540 He would not give up his faith. 473 00:28:18,740 --> 00:28:22,659 He said, “I know that my Redeemer lives,” and those words need to be on 474 00:28:22,690 --> 00:28:24,989 the lips of Christian people to this day. 475 00:28:25,009 --> 00:28:28,740 Zophar does not like what Job has said. 476 00:28:28,949 --> 00:28:30,750 And he says these words in verse two. 477 00:28:30,750 --> 00:28:33,870 “Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make 478 00:28:33,930 --> 00:28:35,800 taste.” In other words, I'm upset. 479 00:28:36,190 --> 00:28:39,469 I feel very strongly about this, and I'm in a hurry. 480 00:28:39,510 --> 00:28:41,819 I'm anxious to say what's on my mind. 481 00:28:42,050 --> 00:28:45,250 And beginning in verse four, he says the same old thing. 482 00:28:45,259 --> 00:28:46,040 In other words. 483 00:28:46,199 --> 00:28:48,800 This is what happens, Job, to evil people. 484 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,020 You've been bad, you've been wicked. 485 00:28:51,210 --> 00:28:54,120 He says that wicked people have this kind of trouble in their 486 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,600 life [verse 19] “because he has oppressed and forsaken the poor.” 487 00:28:58,870 --> 00:29:02,389 Now Job didn't do that, but they're beginning to make accusations that 488 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,130 have no foundation whatsoever. 489 00:29:04,449 --> 00:29:09,180 The Bible says in verse 23 that Zophar described a wicked man's life like this. 490 00:29:09,380 --> 00:29:13,040 “When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his 491 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:17,290 wrath upon him.” And in verse 29, he ends by saying “this is the portion 492 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,710 of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.” 493 00:29:22,039 --> 00:29:23,810 When he ends, Job responds. 494 00:29:23,949 --> 00:29:28,530 He says in chapter 21, verse two, “Suffer me that I may speak. And after 495 00:29:28,530 --> 00:29:32,270 that I have spoken, mock on.” In other words, let me say some things about 496 00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:35,350 this and if you want to make fun of me after that, go ahead and do it. 497 00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:38,969 So what Job does here is to talk about the fact that sometimes in 498 00:29:38,969 --> 00:29:41,089 this life, wicked people prosper. 499 00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:43,710 But he also adds that they pay for their sins. 500 00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:47,280 So Job is saying in effect: Yes, it is true that wicked 501 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:48,970 people suffer in this lifetime. 502 00:29:49,070 --> 00:29:53,480 It is true that bad things happen to bad people, but that doesn't apply to me. 503 00:29:53,719 --> 00:29:57,880 So this ends round two of this great argument in the Book of Job, and when 504 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,469 we get to round three, we're going to see that it gets even more intense. 505 00:30:01,570 --> 00:30:04,890 This is the problem of evil that these men are talking about. 506 00:30:06,050 --> 00:30:08,340 Thank you for listening to My God and My Neighbor. 507 00:30:08,460 --> 00:30:12,760 Stay connected with our podcast on our website, and on Apple, Spotify, 508 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,189 YouTube, or wherever fine podcasts are distributed. 509 00:30:17,740 --> 00:30:20,570 Tennessee Bible College, providing Christian education since 1975 510 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:25,820 in Cookeville, Tennessee, offers undergraduate and graduate programs. 511 00:30:26,190 --> 00:30:27,469 Study at your level. 512 00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:30,499 Aim higher and get in touch with us today.