In this gripping episode of Add Bible, we continue our exploration into the book of Job on day 28 of our spiritual journey. After a prolonged dialogue between Job and his friends, the narrative takes a transformative turn as we finally hear God speak from the whirlwind. This powerful encounter between the divine and the human captures the magnitude of God’s sovereignty and wisdom, raising profound questions about the nature of creation and our place within it.
Welcome to Add Bible, an audio daily devotion from the Ezra Project. Alan J. Huth shares a Bible passage with comments from over 35 years of his personal Bible reading journals and applies the Word of God to our daily lives.
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Today is day 28 in our 30-day journey through the book of Job. Today, after 37 chapters of Job and his friends conversing with each other, God is going to speak. We’re going to listen. The faith comes by our hearing’s recording of chapters 38 and 39 as the Lord speaks from the whirlwind.
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Job 38 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man. I will question you, and you make it known to me. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have understandings. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know. Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk? or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy, or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, Thus far shall you come and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed. Have you commanded the morning since your days began and caused the dawn to know its place that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth and the wicked be shaken out of it? It is changed like clay under the seal and its features stand out like a garment. From the wicked their light is withheld and their uplifted arm is broken. Have you entered into the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare if you know all this. Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And where is the place of darkness that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home? You know, for you were born then and the number of your days is great. Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth? Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt? To bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man. To satisfy the waste in desolate land and to make the ground sprout with grass. Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew? From whose womb did the ice come forth? And who has given birth to the frost of heaven? The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion? Can you lead forth the Maserath in their season, or can you guide the bear with its children? Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth? Can you lift up your voice to the clouds that a flood of waters may cover you? Can you send forth lightnings that they may go and say to you, Here we are? Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind? Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the water skins of the heavens when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together? Can you hunt the prey for the lion? Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket? Who provides for the raven its prey when its young ones cry to God for help and wander about for lack of food? Job 39 Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? Can you number the months that they fulfill? And do you know the time when they give birth, when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open. They go out and do not return to them. Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place? He scorns the tumult of the city. He hears not the shouts of the driver. He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger? Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes? Or will he harrow the valleys after you? Will you depend on him because his strength is great? And will you leave to him your labor? Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love? For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground, forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them. She deals cruelly with her young as if they were not hers. Though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding. When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider. Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying. He paws in the valley and exults in his strength. He goes out to meet the weapons. He laughs at fear and is not dismayed. He does not turn back from the sword. Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin. With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground. He cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. When the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains and the shouting. Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south? Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold. From there he spies out the prey, his eyes behold it from far away. His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.
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In 1984, I read Job 35 through 38 on the same day. And concerning chapter 38, I wrote, God speaks to Job. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? God points out the smallness of man and the bigness of God. Praise God for his sovereignty. He was, is, and will remain in control. In 1997, I read Job 35-42 on the same day, and I wrote, God speaks to Job and his friends. Prepare yourself like a man. I will question you, and you shall answer me. God puts Job in perspective. He never even addresses Job’s issues, but declares his sovereignty. And in 2015, I read Job 38 and 39 on the same day, and I wrote, God speaks. He answers Job out of a whirlwind. Well, rather than answer Job, he questions him. We think we’re going to question God when we get to heaven. I don’t think so. God reminds us, He is the Creator, not evolution. Does 38.22-23 refer to end times? And I put a parenthesis around Revelation 16.21. I continue to write, God also reminds us, He, not us, is the author of wisdom and understanding. Beyond the fact that God created the heavens and the earth, He made it clear He also governs the created. As God does, He raises the level of conversation way above our personal agenda. That ends my journal entries. Let’s take a look at Job 38 and 39. The very first verse of 38 says, Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind. Then he declares, I will question you. I mentioned in one of my journals, some of us think we’re going to have a few questions for God when we get to heaven. As I said then, I don’t think so. The questions that God asks Job are unanswerable. I said in another one of my journals, God raises the level of conversation beyond our personal agenda. None of God’s response in chapters 38 and 39 have anything to do with what Job is going through. God reminds Job and his friends, and he reminds us, he is God. He is the creator and controller of all things. For 37 chapters, Job longed to plead his case before God. Now he has an audience before God Almighty. What do you think he thinks now? We’re going to find out in the next chapter. Our practical application from Job 38 and 39 is forget about questioning God. Forget about how you’ve been treated on your sojourn on the earth. Forget about what you think is fair or unfair. Bend the knee. Bow your heart to the God of the universe. Honor him with all your heart, soul, mind, and spirit. And maybe he will spare us questioning us when we get to his throne room. Father, we thank you that you do answer us. like you are answering Job here in these chapters. We pray, Lord, that we could even have some level of comprehension of who you are and when you answer us what it really means. Lord, thank you for putting sovereignty and perspective in these two chapters. Thank you for reminding us to set our personal agenda aside. Thank you for reminding us who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind. Any understanding we have, any wisdom we have, comes from you. To God be the glory. Great things you have done. Amen. Thanks for listening to AdBible today. After listening to AdBible, you may wish members of your family or friends would find a personal relationship with Jesus like you have. But we know most Christians have never shared their faith with anyone else. In fact, it’s about 95% of us. Maybe you want to, but you just don’t know how. I was not very good at it either, but I had a desire to get better at it. Maybe you do too. Check out our teaching on how to share your faith without a fight at EzraProject.net. Sharing our faith is not a gift some have and some don’t. It’s a command to go and make disciples. Learn how to do it, or at least give it a try. Visit EzraProject.net. Find how to share your faith without a fight. I know you’re going to enjoy it.
In this gripping episode of Add Bible, we continue our exploration into the book of Job on day 28 of our spiritual journey. After a prolonged dialogue between Job and his friends, the narrative takes a transformative turn as we finally hear God speak from the whirlwind. This powerful encounter between the divine and the human captures the magnitude of God’s sovereignty and wisdom, raising profound questions about the nature of creation and our place within it.
