Job 5:19 True or False?

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast, Making Theology Central. Good afternoon, everyone, and I have a confession to make. Oh devotionals, Oh devotionals, How I love you and how I loathe you? Yes, this afternoon, I have to make a confession. I love devotionals, have one right here, and I loathe them. I have a love loathe relationship, a love hate relationship. Do you feel the same way about devotionals? Do you love them, do you loathe them? Or do you just kind of shrug your shoulders and like, I don't know what the big deal is about them. I don't use them. I don't know what your feelings are. I have a love hate relationship, and we're going to talk about why I have that love hate relationship. We're going to explore a devotional that I was looking at I don't know, early this morning, and well, we're going to talk about it.

1:07 It sounds like a plan. Sound like a plan. Well, I guess I should probably give you a proper introduction. Good afternoon everyone. It is Wednesday, August the twenty first, twenty twenty four. It is currently one fifty pm Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central Studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. And in this very studio there are stacks of devotionals. I have all kinds of devotionals. Yeah, I mean, you name it, I have them. I use devotionals all the time. And not only that, on all of my podcast apps I subscribed to. I don't even know how many different devotional podcasts. I don't even know. Some of them are five minutes long, some of them are ten minutes long, some of them are about fifteen minutes long. And they serve kind of like a daily devotional. So I have audio devotionals. I have devotionals in print. I have them and little booklets.

2:02 I have them in full like large books where it covers an entire year devotional for every day of the year. You name it. I have looked at every I constantly will hear. Oh, this is the best devotional. No, this is the best devotional. Oh it's Morning and Evening by Charles Haddon Spurgeon. That's the best. Oh No, it's my Utmost for His Highest that's the best. Oh No, it's John MacArthur's. I can't remember what one of the devotional books he has written. There's a couple of volumes he has done. No, it's this one, it's this one, and everyone has what they think is this is the devotional that transformed my life. It changed my life. But so in one sense, I do love them. I love the idea that I can click on a podcast and get a five or ten minute little devotional thought so I have something to think about through the rest of the day.

2:50 I love having something printed, you know, a booklet of some sort that I can carry with my Bible, and if I get a few minutes, I can open up the devotional and there it is. I can be given something. I love that idea, but I loathe what I think the devotional mindset has done to American evangelicalism and to American fundamentalism. I think what we have is we we have generations of Christians who think like devotionals. What do I mean by that? They think about the text of Scripture in a devotional type of way and a devotional mindset. They look at a verse and say, oh, this verse says this, or this verse says this to me, and this verse spoke to me, and this is what God said to me. Today They think of it in a very devotional mindset, and a devotional mindset is anathema. Devotional mindset is a cursed A devotional mindset is anathema to true biblical understanding. A devotional mindset is anathema to truly understanding the Bible. Or we could say this, a devotional mindset is anathema to biblical hermoneutics. If you truly care about biblical hermaeutics, if you truly care about proper Bible study methods, you know, devotionals are anathema. They are totally They are the annihilation of correct way of thinking. In fact,

4:22 devotionals devotional mindset is the soil in which biblical misinterpretation is planted. A devotional mindset is the soil in which biblical misinterpretation is planted. It grows from that soil because everyone just likes this, Oh, okay, what's the devotional thought today? Okay, here's the scripture. Let me just read that, and then they just go away with that thought. And it's like, well, wait a minute, is that thought even truly accurate? Is that a correct use of that scripture? Is that a correct interpretation of that scripture? And I don't care how now I will say some are better in the devotionals that have their name attached and really being more careful and trying to be more and like what they tend to do. Some of them, well, they'll cover the same passage for like a week or two weeks, so that they can be much more exegetical, much much more placed in context. And those do much better. But other devotionals I don't do that. Well, here's the verse for today, and tomorrow's a completely different verse. They just jump around from verse to verse, from passage to passage, from chapter to chapter. And then the devotional thought in many cases is almost I think, anathema. Well it is to really understanding the text of scripture. And I think, and I think that that's a very damning and dangerous thing. But

5:53 on the other hand, I love them. Give me a devotional and because here's my mindset, give me a devotional, no matter if the devotional is any good, no matter if the devotional is bad. When I open it up, what does it give me? It gives me a text of Scripture. In fact, let me look behind me. I'm getting up here. Right here, behind me, I have a devotional right here. Pathways to his presence a daily devotional. Now, this is a devotional for every day of the year. So I'm just gonna open it up. Here is February the eleventh scripture reading Colossians three, five through nine, key verse Romans five eight, Colossians three five through nine, Romans five to eight. Now, I don't even care what the devotional says at that point. What I'm going to do is I'm gonna go read Colossians three five through nine and Romans five eight one. I'm gonna see if is there any connection between the two. Then I'm just gonna start going. Okay, So what's going on in Romans chapter five? Okay, all right, what's the message here? How does verse eight fit into the overall message? Okay, what's going on in the Book of Colossians chapter three? Well, how does five and nine fit into the overall thing? And I'm just going to immediately utilize that as Okay, you're giving me a I see, the devotional is handing me a challenge, your challenge today, if you are your mission today, if you choose to accept it, is Colossians three five through nine, Romans five to eight. Go and then and then I already have so I don't even need the devotional at

7:23 that point. Now, at some point I may read the devotional. In many cases, I'm like, what does I even have to do with Colossions three, five through nine. That's not what the text is saying, that's not what the chapter is about. And then but it gives me a starting point. Now, the problem is many people don't use it as a starting point. It's the beginning, it's the end. It's all right there and so and and and they will see it in a very like oh almost, uh, I think in a in a really poor way. The way they look at it there is just leads to such misunderstanding. And look, I'm not the only want to say this. This is one of those cases that many seminary professors have said these devotionals have literally destroyed the minds of young Christians and how to actually handle the text of scripture.

8:13 They just see it as like, you know, oh, here's the verse. Oh God spoke to me today. This is what God said. And no, God's not he was speaking to Abraham. That's not about you, and what are you doing? And so even many seminary professors have been frustrated by this, and so I'm not the only one, and I wish more pastors would would condemn this way of thinking and try to get Christians to actually know how to engage the text. Now, the problem is, as a pastor, I also know the frustration. You can stand behind the pulpit, hour after hour teaching every known Bible study method you can come up with. Chapter summary, chapter analysis, biographical, topical, thematical.

9:01 You can go. You can go from every time, you can go from every type of book, background, book survey, chapter seven, you can go. You can go through every Bible study methods you can think of, teach the methods, and then find out that no one will actually use the methods. They won't engage, they won't use them, They just refuse because they require work. A devotional takes five to ten minutes. An actual Bible study method may take hours, if not weeks, It could take months, depending on what you're doing. And they're like, no, no, no, no, no, just give me a little devotional. Just give me a little devotional.

9:44 And many publishers have realized this. So then remember they like daily devotions, and it was five minute devotions. I even remember getting a book called one minute Devotions and it was all about, Hey, for people who are so busy, here's here's here's something that will get you into the word of go God. The only problem is that cannot be the beginning and the end. That little devotional is just the start. It should then lead to longer meditation and more work. But you can tell Christians who have a devotional mindset, and in many cases they're unskilled and actually handling the text. Now I say all of that because well, we're going to look at a devotional. We're going to look at what they did in the Book of Job, Job chapter five, Job chapter five. And I heard this devotional today on the sermon's two point Oh app are you ready? You want to hear it? Job chapter five. Now, if you need context, the person speaking in Job five is the person speaking in Job chapter four.

11:00 Elephas Eliphaz is speaking in chapter five. If you know anything about the Book of Job, the Book of Job has well. Job is suffering horribly, and he has these friends, and these friends give these long sections of dialogue or almost like a speech, and they say all kinds of things to Job. Now do you go run to one of those speeches where his friends may be saying things that are accurate, or maybe saying things that are completely untrue and build a devotional off that I would be highly suspect, And well, let's see what happens. Here we go. Our devotional for today is entitled Deliverance not Limited. The text is Job, Chapter five and verse nineteen. He shall deliver thee in six troubles yay in seven. There shall no evil touch thee. Eliph as in this spoke the truth of God.

11:58 Whoa okay, elafhas in this spoke the truth of God. Now what I always find it interesting is I've seen pastors deal with the Book of Job, and it's funny. Sometimes they'll say, elafas he was wrong here and wrong here and right, but he was right here. Now what determines if he's wrong and right? Now? They will say Scripture determines whether he's wrong or right. I say, the reality is you're determining if he's wrong or right. I just think all of his friend's speeches have to be considered problematic because most of their attempts are are their issue with Job. I mean, if you don't know the Book of Job, I mean simply Job is suffering. Why because well, God set the entire situation up. He says to Satan, have you considered my servant Job? And Satan's basically like, well, he worships you only because you protect him and you've blessed him. Let me, let me basically make him suffer and he will curse you. So guys like, okay, go ahead, Well, Job then suffers, people die. There's just there's physical pain, suffering. He's suffering, suffering, suffering, and his friends show up and nerve. The basic premise of his friends is you're suffering because you are a sinner. But the text he's not suffering because he's a sinner. He's suffering because, well, God set up some challenge with Satan and that's why he is suffering. All right, So but their whole premise is questionable from the very job, you're suffering because you sin, which seems to imply that everyone

13:30 who suffers, you're suffering is because of some sin, and if you would just simply stop sinning, then you would stop suffering. So with that kind of basic premise in mind, when I read Job five nineteen and Eliphast says to Job, he shall deliver you in six troubles yay, in seven, no evil shall touch you. Wait, So how do we understand that they'll come a point where no evil will tell? Now, what is he trying to say to Job? What does elephas mean in light of Job's suffering? Is he simply saying, hey, Job, that all your suffering's going to stop? Is that simply what he's saying. Well, we'll consider at least another source on this, but let's see how this devotional handles it.

14:21 Are you ready? Here we go. We'll start it over. Our devotional for today is entitled Deliverance not Limited. The text is Job, chapter five and verse nineteen. He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yay, in seven, there shall no evil touch thee. Eliph as in this spoke the truth of God. We may have as many troubles as the work days of the week, But the God who worked on those six days will work for us till our deliverance is complete. We shall rest with Him and in Him on our sabbath. Now I agree with that we may suffer every day of the week. Ultimately God will deliver us. Now I do agree with that ultimately God will deliver us. But is that what eliphas is saying? Alaphas coming to Joe, going, hey, man, I know you're suffering, but hey, here's good news. You may suffer, right, you may suffer, and He will deliver you in six troubles. So he will deliver you from these troubles. But ultimately there's going to come a time well no evil shall touch you. Is he simply trying to encourage Job, Hey, you're suffering now, but God's going to ultimately deliver you from everything? Is that The purpose of eliphas is that what he's saying is that, how we interpret this, let's continue.

15:44 The rapid succession of trials is one of the sorest tests of faith. Before we have recovered from one blow, it is followed by another and another, till we are staggered still. The equally quick succession of deliverances is exceedingly cheering. New songs are wrung out upon the anvil by the hammer of affliction till we see in the spiritual world. The antetype of the harmonious Blacksmith. Our confidence is that when the Lord makes our trial six six, they will be and no more. It may be that we have no rest day, for seven troubles come upon us. What then in seven there shall no evil touch. Thee evil may roar at us, but it shall be kept at more than arm's length, and shall not even touch us.

16:34 Its hot breath may distress us, but its little finger cannot be laid upon us. With our loins gird about us, we will meet the six or the seven troubles, and leave fear to those who have no father, no savior, and no sanctifier. All right, now, first, I think you'll notice that how quickly Eliphaz and Job got kicked out of the passage. Elafas said it, okay, now it's just argued it's true, and then boom, Job doesn't even get mentioned. Really, and now it's about you and it's about me. It's about your troubles and my troubles. Well already that already, that's see, that's such a devotional approach. Just kick out the original recipient and make it all about me and make it all about you. But it's not about me or you.

17:23 Elafas wasn't speaking to you, He wasn't speaking to me. He was speaking to Job. So what was Elafas trying to say to Job? Not what the Texas saying to me? Why do we or are we so narcissistic thinking. It's always about us. So already I'm frustrated. Already I'm frustrated. Okay, And and let's just make it very clear, you cannot say so. So number one, job got kicked out of this text and it became about us. That's a problem. Number two. We have to be dogmatic about this. When we read he shall deliver you in six troubles, yeay, and seven, no evil shall touch you. You get to be very careful what you say there, because there is no guarantee that God is going to deliver you in this life from your trouble. There is no guarantee. You may have cancer, and there is no guarantee that God is going to deliver you in this life from your cancer.

18:17 You may have a seizure disorder. There is no guarantee God is going to deliver you from that. You may have a disability, you may have a handicap, you may be paralyzed, you may be blind. I don't know what you're suffering. There is no guarantee that God is going to deliver you from that trouble. There is no guarantee God is going to deliver you from anything in this life. And to even indicate that is ridiculous. Ultimately, I am complete agreement that they will come a time God will ultimately deliver me, and therefore then we'll have a glorified body, no more pain, no more suffering, no more death, no more tears. But not in this life. There is no guarantee of deliverance. In this life, people suffer and people die.

19:11 People have extended periods of time of great suffering. People can suffer horrible things for years and years and years and then die after it. So Number one, the first problem with this is job got kicked out, we got inserted. Number two, it seemed to imply that God that there is some expectation that God will deliver us, and then an ultimate expectation that He will ultimately deliver us. Now, ultimately I'm at all four. But practically I can't make any guarantee. But I guess a third problem. The devotional didn't even bother to explain what Alapas was possibly trying to say. So just I'm just gonna throw out an alternative reading of this, an alternative interpretation, and you can decide today which is correct. And if what Eliphaz was saying was true or false, you ready okay. In Job five, Verse nineteen, Elafhas, one of Job's friends, says the following, he shall deliver thee in six troubles yeay, and seven, there shall no evil touch thee. Elephants is speaking to Job.

20:29 Let me stress that again, Eliphaz is speaking to Job, not you. Elfhas isn't speaking to you. He isn't talking about you, He isn't thinking about you. He is speaking to Job, who is suffering immensely after losing his wealth, his children, and his health. Elephas suggests that job suffering might be a result of his own sins, and that if Job repair and turns back to God, God will deliver him from his troubles. Now, if you read the entire speech which starts in chapter four, then it says then Elephas, and then it goes on, it goes on.

21:20 Look how many verses in chapter four twenty one? Then you get to chapter five, and chapter five has twenty seven. Right. Verse nineteen comes almost at the end of all of those words, And we're just gonna take a devotional from verse nineteen and completely forget everything Elafas has said up to this point and simply saying what Elaphas says, here is the truth of God s this is the stuff. This is the kind of stuff that destroyed. This creates a Christianity which I can't be a part of because it's this fraudulent, fake, shallow, weak minded Christianity that can't deal with the actual text in any way, shape or form.

22:04 Now Job answers in chapter six. So what I would challenge you to do today is I would challenge you to read Job four and five, and you, on your own determine what was Elephas really trying to say when he said, hey, Job, he shall deliver you in six troubles, yeay, and seven, no evil shall touch you? What is he trying to say? I want you to draw your own conclusion. You heard the devotional. I want you to do the reading, and now I'm going to continue on and offer you an alternative interpretation. Right, So, Elphaz is speaking to Job, who is suffering immensely. Job is lost wealth, children, and health. Elfhaz suggests that Job's suffering might be a result of his own sin, and that if Job repents and turns back to God, God will deliver him from his troubles.

22:52 So it may be that, hey, hey, Job, if you will repent. God will deliver you from your trouble. See, the reason you're not being delivered from these troubles is because you will not repent. Meaning Eliphaz's entire premise here is fraudulent. Job is not suffering because he hasn't repented. That is completely erroneous. Elifaz emphasizes God's protection and deliverance the number six and seven there here is a poetic expression in Hebrew literature signifying completeness or the totality of God's protection. This is supposed to signify God. God can perfectly protect you. God can perfectly deliver you. So why are you not being perfectly delivered? Why are you not being perfectly protected? Well, because Job, you are in sin.

23:41 There is nothing positive here. The whole thing is a fraudulent misunderstanding. Job's friends are not the good guys in the story. But the devotional is like he speaks the truth of God. Now let's kick Job out and let's insert ourselves. Hey, hey, hey, dear Saint of God, my dearly beloved, know that God will deliver you out of six troubles and then ultimately He will deliver you from all. And there's someone sitting there going, Well, could he deliver me out of this wheelchair? Could he deliver me from having to go to chemo treatment? Could he deliver me from you know, I don't know those eighteen years I was being molested? Could he deliver it? Could he deliver me from stop making promises that God has not made?

24:32 But wait? Essentially, Eliphaz is saying that God will deliver a righteous person from many troubles and protect them from harm, implying that job suffering would cease if he returned to righteousness. See that's the implication. The devotional just said, Oh what a beautiful passage. Oh what did you what did God speak? How did God speak to you today? Well? I was reading Job five nineteen, and God just promise me He's going to deliver me from all of these troubles. Have you heard Christians talk like that? I just want to just I just want to start screaming and just like you know, unclean, unclean, Just stay away from me. You're unclean. I mean no, I may be unclean, someone's unclean, Just get away from me. The context of Job's situation, Elafhaz's words are a misapplication of truth. The Book of Job makes it very clear that Job's suffering is not due to his own sin, but it is a test allowed by God. Eliphaz Is incorrectly assumes that job suffering is a direct result of his wrongdoing, and therefore his advice to Job is based on a faulty understanding of Job's situation, and the idea is God will. The idea seems to be God will deliver you six times and ultimately seven you won't be hard. But it's all based on if you get right now. That's I am not. Oh, I could,

26:08 I could? I want you know the goal here. The goal here is not to go full blown. I could turn this into a series and we could go through everything in Job four and five in the speech of Elaphas to see if this holds true. But I want you to read. I'm going to have you read four and five and see. You can tell me what you find. You can tell me what you find. Well, I was getting ready to just start working through Job four and five right now, to see if this holds true. You can look it up. But at least some are willing to admit, Hey, what Elephas is doing here is a complete misapplication. Let me read this again. The context of Job's situation. Elaphas's words are a misapplication of truth. The Book of Job makes it clear that job suffering are not due to his own sin, but as a test allowed by God. Elafas incorrectly assumes that job suffering is a direct result of wrongdoing, and therefore his advice to Job is based on a faulty understanding of Job's situation.

27:03 Elafhaz represents a common theological error, the belief in a strict retributive justice system where good things always happens to good people and bad things only happen to bad people. The Book of Job ultimately challenged this very simplistic view, showing that the righteous can suffer and not all suffering is a result of personal sin. Elafaz's statement is a misunderstanding of Job's as a demonstrates a misunderstanding of Job's circumstance, leading him to offer advice that is not only helpful, but also incorrect in the context of Job's experience. And if you even look at this, if we take this section, if we've just break this say down into maybe seventeen to twenty, look at that at the entire section. Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Is God correcting job? No, God is not even correcting. So even in verse seventeen, you can already see that Elaphas is misinterpreting the entire situation. Therefore, do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. Hey, hey, job is not being chasened. Elaphast see the devotional just goes to verse nineteen and says, hey, he's speaking the truth of God. No, he's misrepresenting. God is not chasening job.

28:24 God is not correcting Job. Job hasn't done anything. See why I loathe devotionals. For he bruises, but he binds up. He wounds, but his hands make whole. Well, God, God is not correcting. He's not bruising, he's not doing the hest. Now he's set this up, and we could argue about how messed up this story is. But he's not being punished or disciplined or chastened. And then from that he says, he shall deliver you in six troubles, but seven no evil shall touch you. See the idea is, hey, hey, he'll deliver you from each one, as he will, in a sense, deliver you from the trouble that he puts you in to chase in you, and then ultimately in the seventh no evil will touch you if you ultimately repent and respond to the chasening in a correct way.

29:20 That's the clear implication. And famine. He shall redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword. See, God will ultimately only do good to you. If once you are right, then God will only do good to you. Because God only does good to good people and does bad to bad people. That is a complete misunderstanding. In fact, the entire book Good Job is a correction to this. And someone took a devotional. In fact, that was Charles Hadden Spurgeon. Someone took, and again everyone thinks Charles Hadden Spurgeon's devotional is the greatest thing in the history of humankind. I've always had problems with it. I cannot tell you how many years I have bought a new copy of Morning and Evening by Charles Hatton Spurgeon, a new notebook, a new box of pencils. I'm like, this year, I'm just gonna do just spend all year and Morning and Evening by Charles Hatton Spurgeon. And usually before I get halfway through January I'm breaking pencils, burning notebooks. I'm like, why do I do this? Because it drives me literally insane, and how he handles the text of scripture. But everybody's like, he's the greatest. It's the most amazing thing I've ever heard.

30:27 This is great. And I'm like, oh, if you are going with this, you have no idea how to handle scripture because that's that devotional mindset where you just open it up in any word, just oh, that's God's word to me. Oh. I was reading Joke five nineteen and God was telling me that he will deliver me from six troubles and in seven, no evil's going to touch me. Oh, God's gonna deliver me from my troubles, not only presently but ultimately. That is not what that text is saying. Is it's the words of a very confused man who is accusing job of suffering because of sin, that he's being chastened by God, that God is bruising him, that God is doing these things. But hey, hey, God will deliver you after each chastening and ultimately nothing is going to harm you, No evil's gonna touch you. But it's based on if you get right with God. And Job's issue is not getting right with God. Now did you hear my loathing of devotionals? Did you hear it? Did you hear how angry I get now? I get angry not because of any personal thing to me. I get angry before what it does to other people. They hear that, and then they hold onto it. They cling to it in the midst of difficult and then when situations don't get better and situations don't get better, and situations don't

31:58 get better, and situations don't get better, and then they don't understand where where is God? Why is it God delivering me from these troubles? I heard a devotional on the sermon's two point oh app that told me, Yeah, you heard a devotional that literally lied to you and took a passage where someone is misapplying truth to Job and made it about you. No, that is in medicine, we would call that malpractice. Someone would get sued, and theology would call it a beautiful devotional. Oh it's so, it's malpractice someone she has sued for it. Now At the same time, I love that devotional and Job five nineteen I love it. You know why because guess what I just did? I just spent thirty minutes looking at job five nineteen and now guess what. We have an assignment to read job four and five so that we can determine exactly what Eliphaz was trying to say. See how I love that devotional. I love it because it got us into the scriptures. It got us something to work on. We have an assignment four and five. Are you already working on it? I want you to go through job four and five, and I want you to start summarizing what Eliphas was saying. And then I want you to interpret five nineteen and light of what he says and everything that comes before and everything that comes after it, and jobs four and five. So job four

33:30 and five go through, summarize what he is saying, Elafhas's argument, and then then interpret five nineteen and light of those summaries. Now, guess what got us there? A one minute devotional? Guess what led me to the point of utter anger that devotional. I loathe them, I love them, I love and loathe, I loathe and love, I love and hate. I despise but desire. I know it's conflicting, I know it's double minded. I'm sorry, but there we have it all right? Oh, I want to go through job for see, that's what I see. I'm I want to so bad. I want to just say. But because when you leave, when you leave something just as an assignment, you don't know if anyone will actually participate. If one attempts a word with you, will you become weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

34:38 Surely you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have strengthened the feeble needs. But now it comes upon you and you are weary. It touches you, and you are troubled. Is not your reverence, your confidence and the integrity of your wighs your hope? Remember now, whoever perished being not? Remember now who ever perished being innocent? Or or where were the upright? Ever? Cut off? Immediately see where he's going. Hey, you're suffering because you're not upright. You're suffering because you're not innocent. And then you're gonna go to five nineteen and say this somehow. Ela Faz was like, Hey, here's some good news. God's gonna deliver you from six of your troubles and the seventh, he's gonna alter, he's not encouraging Joe. What in the world, man, What in the world? And you know what, I'm so grateful though, there was a time in my Christian life.

35:36 I'm just gonna tell you I would have listened to that and I would have started writing notes out based off what I heard. I would have went with that interpretation. I would have went with that idea because I would just assume it has to be true, it has to be right, and then I probably would have preached it or taught it, and I would have been basically guilty of malpractice. And I would have given myself that hope. That makes me so mad that I ever did. That makes me mad that sometimes you got to learn not what to trust. You can't trust devotionals. You just cannot trust them. I'm not saying don't listen to them. Listen.

36:22 I subscribe to all the devotional RSS feeds. I subscribe to as many as I can from sermon audio. I have them on my other podcast apps, and I'll get the notification and I will listen because I like to hear devotionals, but I typically use them now and I hate to say it. You can say I'm jaded. You can say I'm cynical, but I just look at them like, hmmm, let's look at the text. But I'm grateful that they give me the text, and I'm grateful they give me kind of a philological hypothesis that I can test. We just tested job five nineteen briefly. Now your job is to go really test it. Read all of job for all Job five, summarize the arguments that are being made by Eliphaz, and then interpret five nineteen. And light of that, if you come up with a different interpretation, I would love to hear it. You have an assignment. Go enjoy yourself, talk about it, discuss it, have a family debate. Tell me what you discover. Everyone, have a great day. God bless