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Job 15:4

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Job, if you had your way,\par no person would respect God\par and pray to him.\par

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Do you think a wise man would argue\par with worthless words\par and with speeches that mean nothing?\par

The things you say\par clearly show your sin.\par Job, you are trying to hide your sin\par by using clever words.\par

That person should have enjoyed\par \{talking with\} God All-Powerful.\par That person should have prayed to God\par all the time.\par

“But Job, if I were you,\par I would turn to God\par and tell him about my problems.\par

“A person’s friends should be kind\par to him if he has troubles.\par A person should be loyal to his friend,\par even if that friend turned away from \{God\} All-Powerful.\par

Lord, it is time for you to do something.\par The people have broken your law.\par

They never call to me from their hearts.\par Yes, they cry on their beds.\par And they cut themselves\par when they ask for grain and\par new wine.\par But \{in their hearts,\} they have turned away\par from me.\par

And when a person dies, a relative will come to get the body so he can take it out and burn it. {\cf2\super [81]} The relative will come to take away the bones. He will call to any person who might be hiding way back in the house, “Are there any other \{dead bodies\} in there with you?”

Some people turned away from the Lord. They quit following me. Those people stopped asking the Lord for help. So I will remove those people from that place.”

Then Jesus taught the followers that they should always pray and never lose hope. Jesus used this story to teach them:

So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.

This gift is from God, and it is very important to me. Why? Because if law could make us right with God, then Christ did not have to die.




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