Day 320: Job 25-28 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
2. 0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
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8. 0:24family. Welcome to day 320 here the
9. 0:27Battle Department podcast. I'm super
10. 0:29super excited. Today we've got Job
11. 0:31chapters 25, 26, 27, and 28. Four
12. 0:34chapters of the Bible. And in my humble
13. 0:38opinion, I know I'm letting the cat out
14. 0:39of the bag early, okay? But in my humble
15. 0:41opinion, Job chapter 28 may be some of
16. 0:45the best reading on wisdom that I've
17. 0:49read in all of the wisdom literature of
18. 0:52the Bible. It may be my favorite chapter
19. 0:54of the book of Job so far. I'll say so
20. 0:57far. It may be my favorite chapter of
21. 1:01Job so far. And it may be one of my
22. 1:04favorite chapters of the Bible. Job
23. 1:06chapter 28 is gold. So, hey, if you
24. 1:09haven't done the reading today, stop
25. 1:11this video, pause the audio, go get the
26. 1:13reading done because I I promise you,
27. 1:15okay, Job chapter 25, very very short.
28. 1:1826- 27, not long, but honestly, Job
29. 1:22chapter 28 is incredible. Uh, and I
30. 1:24don't want to short change chapters 25,
31. 1:2626, and 27 that it's al it's all great
32. 1:29reading, but man, Job chapter 28, gold.
33. 1:32All right, if you have done the reading,
34. 1:35let's dive into today's episode. Like
35. 1:37always, I'm going to give you a context
36. 1:39clue or two or three or whatever. Going
37. 1:42to give you context, uh, historical,
38. 1:44cultural, linguistic context, and then
39. 1:46we're going to dive into a couple nerdy
40. 1:48nuggets. I got five written down today.
41. 1:50It's kind of been a rhythm I've been in
42. 1:52as we have treked through the book of
43. 1:54Job together. And then like always, I'll
44. 1:56leave leave us off, send us off, kind
45. 1:59of, you know, commission us with a
46. 2:01timeless truth for the day. Let's dive
47. 2:04in. All right. I've already started
48. 2:06talking about Job chapter 28. So, I may
49. 2:08as well kind of talk through what's
50. 2:10going on with Job chapter 28 because it
51. 2:14is kind of odd. Okay? It's an odd uh
52. 2:17chapter. Okay? So most people are going
53. 2:21to assume that Job chapter 28 is spoken
54. 2:26by Job. All right. And why? Well, you
55. 2:30know, we've been in this rhythm where
56. 2:32Elephaz is going to talk. You know,
57. 2:34Elephaz is going to talk, Bill Dad's
58. 2:36going to talk, Zofar is going to talk,
59. 2:38right? Like Elephaz talks, then Job
60. 2:41responds, then Billad, then Job
61. 2:42responds, then Zofar, then Job responds.
62. 2:45All right? So, because we're in that
63. 2:47rhythm, you can just kind of assume what
64. 2:50what's going to happen in chapter 25 is
65. 2:53Bill Dad's going to talk. Now, this is
66. 2:55the shortest speech that Bill Dad's
67. 2:57going to give. It's only six verses. So,
68. 3:00you can look at chapter 25 right now and
69. 3:02you know, you can look at it in in your
70. 3:04Bible. It's short, man. It's like really
71. 3:07really short. And then Job's going to
72. 3:08start responding and he's going to
73. 3:10respond in chapter 26. A lot of chaos
74. 3:12language. We'll come back to that. And
75. 3:14then chapter 27, I want to actually read
76. 3:17these verse for you. So Job chapter 26
77. 3:20verse one, just three words in the whole
78. 3:22verse. Then Job replied, that's it. And
79. 3:24then chapter 27:1 says this, "And Job
80. 3:28continued his discourse." Okay,
81. 3:30fantastic. Let's skip chapter 28. Let's
82. 3:33go to chapter 29. Okay, says this. Job
83. 3:36continued his discourse. So we get, you
84. 3:40know, Job is talking in chapter 26:1.
85. 3:43Job's talking in chapter 27:1. Job's
86. 3:46talking in chapter 29:1. Fascinating.
87. 3:49So, who's talking in chapter 28? Now,
88. 3:51most people assume since Job is talking
89. 3:54before chapter 28 and he's talking after
90. 3:56chapter 28, Job's talking in chapter 28.
91. 3:59And you would be incorrect if you came
92. 4:01to that conclusion. It is not Job. Okay?
93. 4:04And multiple versions of the Bible are
94. 4:06going to actually like low-key get this
95. 4:07wrong. Okay? So in the same way that you
96. 4:10know chapter 26:1, 27:1, and 29:1
97. 4:15all tell you like who's talking, a lot
98. 4:19of versions of the Bible will insert a
99. 4:23label here. Okay? So the ESV does it.
100. 4:27The ESV is going to put a little heading
101. 4:29in the NIV. The heading just says
102. 4:32interlude. Okay? Where wisdom is found.
103. 4:35That's what the NIV does. just says
104. 4:37interlude where wisdom is found. But not
105. 4:39every version of the Bible is going to
106. 4:41do that. The in the ESV labels this job
107. 4:44continues where is wisdom. So the ESV is
108. 4:48making a claim that chapter 28 is
109. 4:51written or is spoken by Job. However,
110. 4:55the NIV is making it pretty clear this
111. 4:58is not Job. So this is a debate. This
112. 5:01may not even be a debate that you care
113. 5:02about, but it is a debate. Now, here's
114. 5:05the next little clue is the entirety of
115. 5:09the book of Job is a kayazm. And good
116. 5:12kayazms have something in the center.
117. 5:15And the thing that's in the center is
118. 5:16actually the whole point. It's the whole
119. 5:18purpose. And guess what? The center of
120. 5:20the entire book of Job is chapter 28.
121. 5:23Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. You're
122. 5:24right. Chapter 28 is the center of the
123. 5:26kayazm. So, chapter 28:1 has no
124. 5:30beginning. It doesn't tell us who's
125. 5:32talking. You could assume it's Joe, but
126. 5:34that would be an assumption. It's very,
127. 5:35very different than everything else that
128. 5:37we have in the entire book. And I, you
129. 5:39know, is going to throw my hat in the
130. 5:41ring here. I'm going to say I think that
131. 5:44this is the narrator, the same narrator
132. 5:47who tells us in chapter chapter one in
133. 5:50the prologue in in the epilogue like,
134. 5:54you know, narrates what's happening, the
135. 5:56portions of Job that are narrative. I
136. 5:58think the narrator is interjecting that
137. 6:01human wisdom has gotten everybody to
138. 6:04where as far as they can go and then
139. 6:06chapter 28. I actually think that the
140. 6:09entirety of the book of Job is built on
141. 6:11chapter 28. All right. So that's our big
142. 6:14context for the day. Okay. Bill Dad part
143. 6:17three is Job chapter 25. Job's response
144. 6:21to Billad and all of his friends is Job
145. 6:24chapter 26 and 27. And then Job chapter
146. 6:2728 is the center of our kayazm and the
147. 6:31entire point of the book of Job. And
148. 6:33those are the four chapters that we have
149. 6:34assigned for us today. Okay. So if you
150. 6:37kind of want to wrap your head around
151. 6:39what are these four chapters doing here
152. 6:42and what purpose do they serve at this
153. 6:45point in juncture of the book? Chapters
154. 6:4625, 26, 27, 28 are Bill Dad's, you know,
155. 6:52last, you know, he's a thorn in the
156. 6:54flesh. It's his last twisting of the
157. 6:55thorn in Job's side. Job responds in
158. 6:58chapter 26 and then in chapter 27, he's
159. 7:01responding to all of his friends. But
160. 7:03then chapter 28, wisdom starts to talk.
161. 7:05So with that context, let's dive into
162. 7:07our nerdy nuggets. Okay, Job chapter 25.
163. 7:10This is Bill Dad part three. Family, the
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186. 8:06a copy today. All right, back to the
187. 8:10episode. And all I got to say here is,
188. 8:13dude, Bill Dad only gets six verses. And
189. 8:16here's the irony. The irony is that Bill
190. 8:19Dad isn't wrong when it comes to the
191. 8:21nature of God. It's just that he's wrong
192. 8:24about Job. So, Job chapter 25, what does
193. 8:27it say? It says this, "Dminion and all
194. 8:30belong to God." Amen, Billad. He
195. 8:32establishes order in the heights of
196. 8:34heaven. Amen, Billad. Can his forces be
197. 8:36numbered? On whom does his light not
198. 8:39rise? How then can a mortal be righteous
199. 8:42before God? Most most of us would say,
200. 8:44"Yeah, Paul." This is what Paul argues
201. 8:46in Romans. No, no one's righteous. No,
202. 8:49not one. For all have sinned and fall
203. 8:51short of the glory of God. Okay, so on
204. 8:54in a real way, Bill Dad's right. Job,
205. 8:56what's this right? No one's righteous
206. 8:58before God. How can one born of woman be
207. 9:02pure? Even if even the moon is not
208. 9:05bright, and the stars are not pure in
209. 9:08his eyes, how much less a mortal who is
210. 9:11but a maggot? God dang, that's fighting
211. 9:13words. Bill Dad calls Job a maggot. You
212. 9:16maggot. That's so that's so mean. A
213. 9:19human being who is only a worm. Dang.
214. 9:22Job gets called a maggot and a worm.
215. 9:24Now, if here's the irony is that in a
216. 9:28little bit when Yahweh actually comes
217. 9:31down to speak to Job, it's no different.
218. 9:34The conclusion really is who's this
219. 9:36mortal that dares talk to me? Who is
220. 9:39this mortal that thinks he even has the
221. 9:42right to like approach me? So again, and
222. 9:45this is just what's so trippy with all
223. 9:48the content from the book of Job is that
224. 9:50these guys are right. It just happen to
225. 9:52be wrong in terms of the application.
226. 9:55He's wrong about Job. Job is blameless.
227. 9:58Okay. So right but so wrong. Which that
228. 10:02should be the theme. That should be the
229. 10:03subtitle of the book of Job. Job so
230. 10:05right but so wrong. Okay. It says this.
231. 10:07Job 26:1. Then Job replied verse two.
232. 10:11How you have helped the powerless. How
233. 10:15you have saved the arm that is feeble.
234. 10:19What advice you have offered to one
235. 10:21without wisdom and what great insight
236. 10:23you have displayed. This is sarcasm if
237. 10:26you can't tell. Who has helped you utter
238. 10:28these words? And whose spirit spoke from
239. 10:32your mouth? Okay, this is just straight
240. 10:34sarcasm. The dead are in deep anguish,
241. 10:37those beneath the waters and all that
242. 10:39live in them. Okay, and so then Job is
243. 10:42going to break into a creation poem. We
244. 10:45got a lot of these in the book of
245. 10:46Psalms, right? these what I would call
246. 10:48mythological
247. 10:50kind of retellings or versions of the
248. 10:53creation account. In this creation
249. 10:55account, I would say that Job chapter 20
250. 11:00uh 6 7-14, I would consider that a
251. 11:03creation poem. He spreads out the
252. 11:06northern skies over empty space. He
253. 11:08suspends the earth over nothing. Okay,
254. 11:11this stuff is beautiful. And like
255. 11:13always, if we're going to have creation
256. 11:15language or creation poems, we're going
257. 11:18to get this mythological language. So
258. 11:19what does Job say in Job 26 12 and 13?
259. 11:24He says this, "By his power, he turned
260. 11:27up the sea. By his wisdom, he cut Rahab
261. 11:31to pieces. By his breath, the skies
262. 11:33became fair. His hand pierced the
263. 11:36gliding serpent." This is deeply
264. 11:38mythological language. This is th this
265. 11:40chapter chapter 26 with the creation
266. 11:43myth and a focus on the deep and a
267. 11:47particular sea monster named Rahab. Job
268. 11:51is kind of foreshadowing chapters that
269. 11:53we're going to get later on where God is
270. 11:56going to respond. It's almost like God's
271. 12:00responding to what Job says here in Job
272. 12:02chapter 26. He's like, "I'm so glad you
273. 12:05know how about the creation and about
274. 12:08these sea dragons and sea monsters. Let
275. 12:11me tell you some stuff that you don't
276. 12:14know. Okay? Let me use this foundation
277. 12:16of understanding that you've displayed
278. 12:18here in chapter 26 and let's expand it.
279. 12:21Let's build upon it." It's crazy to me
280. 12:24that in the middle of Job's chaos, he is
281. 12:28commending a god who contained chaos. I
282. 12:31love this and I don't want to steal my
283. 12:33thunder, but this is our timeless truth
284. 12:35for the day. John the Baptist wasn't
285. 12:36able to do this in the New Testament.
286. 12:38Based on his own personal experiences,
287. 12:41he made an assumption about Jesus based
288. 12:44on personal experience. So since Jesus
289. 12:47wasn't delivering him out of his
290. 12:50suffering and his prison, he sent people
291. 12:54to Jesus to ask, "Are you really the one
292. 12:56or should we be looking for somebody
293. 12:57else?" Bruh, am I the one? You are the
294. 13:00one that said, "I'm the lamb of God that
295. 13:02takes away the sins of the world." What
296. 13:03are you talking about? You're the one
297. 13:04that baptized me. You're what? What are
298. 13:06you talking about? So, your personal
299. 13:09offense with me is causing you to doubt
300. 13:12who I am. There should be a massive
301. 13:15firewall between your personal
302. 13:17experiences with God and what you just
303. 13:19know to be true about God. Right? I say
304. 13:22this all the time. Whether or not God
305. 13:24provides for you has nothing to do with
306. 13:26whether or not he's a provider. Period.
307. 13:29Whether or not he heals you has nothing
308. 13:31to do with whether or not he's a healer.
309. 13:33And people's personal testimonies are
310. 13:36amazing. And we don't want to discredit
311. 13:38anybody's personal testimony. But
312. 13:40personal testimony can't be the only
313. 13:43reason that you believe all these
314. 13:45amazing things about God. We don't
315. 13:47believe in these amazing things about
316. 13:48God just because another person can
317. 13:50prove that they happen. No, we believe
318. 13:52amazing things about God because the
319. 13:53Bible tells us amazing things about God.
320. 13:57because this is the first cultural value
321. 13:59at the garden. The Bible is how we know
322. 14:01God. My personal experience is not how I
323. 14:03know God. The Bible is how I know God.
324. 14:06Okay, so that's kind of my timeless
325. 14:07truth of the day. Um I'm just so
326. 14:10impressed that Job is dealing with chaos
327. 14:13and he can still say by his power he
328. 14:16turned up the sea. By his wisdom, he cut
329. 14:18Rahab into pieces. He can still
330. 14:21acknowledge this is a God that crushes
331. 14:22chaos. Low key. Shameless plug for this
332. 14:26book, Crushing Chaos. Job admits Yahweh
333. 14:28alone tames chaos. And and how do I know
334. 14:31that Yahweh tames chaos? Because Job is
335. 14:34using chaos language, the sea, the deep,
336. 14:37rahab, to talk about God's dominance
337. 14:41over the creation. Okay. Next little
338. 14:44nerdy nugget is is Job chapter 27. Okay.
339. 14:48Uh Job 27 verse 2 to4. We're going to
340. 14:52have his oath of innocence. Job is going
341. 14:54to give an oath of innocence. Listen
342. 14:56here. Says this. As surely as God lives,
343. 14:59who has denied me just as the Almighty
344. 15:01who has made my life bitter. As long as
345. 15:03I have life within me, the breath of God
346. 15:05in my nostrils, my lips will not say
347. 15:08anything wicked and my tongue will not
348. 15:10utter lies. I'm not going to I'm not
349. 15:12going to admit that I'm guilty when
350. 15:14that's not the truth. Then it says this,
351. 15:15verse 5, I will never admit you are in
352. 15:18the right till I die. I will not deny my
353. 15:21integrity. I will maintain my innocence
354. 15:24and never let go of it. My conscience
355. 15:27will not reproach me as long as I live.
356. 15:32Job is like, I I have to I'm taking an
357. 15:34oath of innocence. Now, this oath of
358. 15:36innocence is going to get blown up into
359. 15:39like expanded and he's going to have to
360. 15:42give an oath of innocence in order to uh
361. 15:46talk to the Lord. Okay. So, we're going
362. 15:49to get more Oath of Innocence content
363. 15:51from chapters 29 to 31, but this is a
364. 15:54condensed version of that oath of
365. 15:56innocence. All right. And then last,
366. 15:58okay, chapter dang on 28. I love chapter
367. 16:0228. It starts this way. There is a mine
368. 16:05for silver and a place for gold where
369. 16:08gold is refined. Iron is taken from the
370. 16:10earth and copper is smelted from ore.
371. 16:13Okay. So, these are all what? Precious
372. 16:15metals. Okay. And jewelry. Okay. Silver,
373. 16:19okay, gold, iron, okay, copper, all this
374. 16:23stuff. Like there's a place where humans
375. 16:26like take this stuff from the earth.
376. 16:28Okay, mortals put an end to the
377. 16:30darkness. They search out the farthest
378. 16:32recesses for ore in the blackest
379. 16:35darkness. Okay, so ore is another uh
380. 16:38ingredient. Silver, gold, iron, copper,
381. 16:40ore. Far from human dwellings, they cut
382. 16:43a shaft in places untouched by human
383. 16:45feet. Far from other people they dangle
384. 16:48and sway the earth from which food
385. 16:51comes. So now we're at food. Okay, food
386. 16:53comes from the earth as well. Lapis
387. 16:55lazeli, okay, comes from the rocks and
388. 16:59dust contain nuggets of gold. Okay, no
389. 17:02bird of prey knows that hidden path. No
390. 17:05falcon's eye has seen it. Proud beasts
391. 17:07do not set foot on it. No lion prowls
392. 17:09there. Okay, people assault the flinty
393. 17:12rocks with their hands. Blah blah blah
394. 17:13blah. Okay. They tunnel. This is verse
395. 17:1610. They tunnel through the rock. Their
396. 17:18eyes see all its treasures. They search
397. 17:22the sources of the rivers to bring
398. 17:24hidden things to light. And then it's
399. 17:27all going to shift. Here we go. But
400. 17:29where can wisdom be found? Where does
401. 17:32understanding dwell? Drop the mic. Like,
402. 17:35that is such a freaking dope setup to
403. 17:38say, but wisdom can't be found on the
404. 17:40earth. You can find silver on the earth.
405. 17:42You can find gold on the earth. You can
406. 17:44find iron on the earth. You can find
407. 17:45copper on the earth. You can find ore.
408. 17:47You can find precious metals. You can
409. 17:49find lapis lazeli. You can find
410. 17:51treasures. You can find hidden things.
411. 17:53You can do all that. Humans can get all
412. 17:56that. They can search the sea. They can
413. 17:58search the earth. They can find all this
414. 18:01stuff, but they can't get wisdom. Verse
415. 18:0413. No mortal comprehends its worth. It
416. 18:07cannot be found in the land of the
417. 18:09living. The deep says, "It's not in me."
418. 18:12The sea says, "It is not with me." It
419. 18:14cannot be bought with the finest gold,
420. 18:17nor can its price be weighed out in
421. 18:20silver. It cannot be bought with the
422. 18:22gold of ophere. Oh fear, oh fear, with
423. 18:28precious onyx or lapis lazeli. Neither
424. 18:32gold nor crystal can compare with it,
425. 18:34nor can it be had for jewels of gold.
426. 18:38Okay, just on and on and on and on and
427. 18:40on. And what is the point? Verse 20,
428. 18:44chapter 28. Where then does wisdom come
429. 18:47from? Since it doesn't come from the
430. 18:48earth, you can't you can't dig for it.
431. 18:51You can't mine it. Where does
432. 18:53understanding dwell? It is hidden from
433. 18:55the eyes of every living thing,
434. 18:57concealed even from the birds in the
435. 18:59sky. And then it all culminates in the
436. 19:02last verse. And he said to the human
437. 19:04race, "The fear of the Lord, that is
438. 19:07wisdom. And to shun evil is
439. 19:09understanding." What a good chapter of
440. 19:11the Bible. Hey, there is no wisdom found
441. 19:13on earth. God is the only one who can
442. 19:16make you wise. God is the only one who
443. 19:18can give wisdom. You can get gold out of
444. 19:20the earth. You can get silver out of the
445. 19:22earth. You can get copper out of the
446. 19:23earth. You can get ore out of the earth.
447. 19:24You can get a lot of things out of the
448. 19:25earth. Can't get wisdom out of the
449. 19:26earth. Can't dig for it. Can't tunnel
450. 19:28for it. Can't mine for it. The only
451. 19:30thing you can do is pray for it and fear
452. 19:34the Lord and God will begin to make you
453. 19:38wise. And if he makes you wise, oh man,
454. 19:42then guess what? Everything becomes at
455. 19:45your disposal. I don't know if you ever
456. 19:47talked to somebody and you just think to
457. 19:49yourself, "Yep, I would have never
458. 19:50thought to ask that question or I would
459. 19:52have never thought to ask myself that
460. 19:53question or look at it that way." That
461. 19:55person is wise. they're wise. And it is
462. 19:58the pursuit of wisdom that actually
463. 20:00begins to make you wise. And whether or
464. 20:03not you even know where to go looking
465. 20:05for wisdom is already a proof that
466. 20:08you're either wise or not wise. Wisdom.
467. 20:11You can hear proverbs being echoed. Hey,
468. 20:14wisdom is more valuable than gold. It's
469. 20:18more costly than crystals and jasper and
470. 20:21all these other things. So the price of
471. 20:24wisdom but also the person who
472. 20:28ultimately holds the key for wisdom is
473. 20:30the whole point of chapter 28. And now
474. 20:33that we're at the kayazm. Okay, now
475. 20:36we're at the halfway point and
476. 20:38everything starts to shift from this
477. 20:41point out and everything is going to
478. 20:43start to mirror what's come before it.
479. 20:46But that is chapter 28 and we already
480. 20:49tackled our timeless truth for the day.
481. 20:52We kind of did a little out of order. I
482. 20:54gave you our context clue and I was
483. 20:56giving you nerdy nuggets and then I kind
484. 20:58of slipped our timeless truth in there
485. 20:59and then I gave you my last nerdy nugget
486. 21:01for the day. What a good day on the
487. 21:05podcast. Tomorrow we've got day 321.
488. 21:10Day 3:21 we're going to be looking at
489. 21:12Job chapters 29 to31. I cannot wait.
490. 21:17Same time, same place. I'll be here.
491. 21:19Only question is, will you be here? If
492. 21:22you're on a streak, I'm proud of you. If
493. 21:23you're not on a streak, I love you.
494. 21:25There is now no condemnation for those
495. 21:27of you who are in Christ Jesus. Anyway,
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