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The Book of Job: Suffering, Pain and Patience - It Isn’t Until Chapter 38 That the Lord Steps Into the Discussion, and It Is From These Chapters That We Can Learn Many Lessons.
Season 6, Ep. 6
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A key to understanding the Book of Job comes in the Lord's words to Job in the last chapters of the book. He answers Job's questions with questions of His own - none of which Job can answer - and he condemns the three friends because their argument, that suffering is the result of sin, is totally false.
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