Subscribe to BBC on Apple, Spotify , or Amazon As we open Nehemiah chapter 9, the returned exiles in Judah are coming to grips with the reality that they are no different than the Israelites who wandered around for 40 years in a spiritual wilderness. They were sent…
In Job 15–17, Round 2 begins as the velvet gloves of friendship come off, replaced by boxing gloves. Eliphaz accuses Job of foolish wickedness, Job fires back calling his friends "miserable comforters," and in his darkest hour declares a witness in heaven will vindicate…
In Job 11–14, Zophar the zero-mercy zealot delivers the shortest and most aggressive speech of Round 1, pronouncing Job guilty without evidence and demanding repentance. Job fires back with his longest and most emotional response yet — moving from sarcasm to argument to a…
In this Job 8 commentary, Bildad the Shuhite opens his attack by accusing Job's dead children of sin. Job responds by asking three haunting questions: How can a mortal be righteous before God? How can I argue my case before God? Why was I…
In Job 4–7, Eliphaz opens the first of three debate rounds with a polished but crushing argument: Job must have sinned because God rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked. Job refuses to confess to sins he never committed, compares his friends to a…
In just three chapters Job loses his livestock, servants, ten children, and his health in a single catastrophic sequence. Yet he worships. Satan's two-stage assault strips away everything external, then attacks him physically. While Job's wife urges him to curse God and die, three…
The Bible is a collection of stories that together tell a much larger story of the entire history of our redemption, with Jesus as the ultimate hero. Job is one of the stories that appear in the Old Testament. As we strive to know…
