The Bible Provocateur
The Bible Provocateur
LIVE DISCUSSION: (Job 6:21-30) Iniquity On My Tongue? (Part 2 of 4)
Accused without evidence, Job asks for what most of us crave when we’re misunderstood: “Teach me, and I will be silent.” We pair that brave invitation with Jesus’s startling clarity before Pilate: “If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight.” From there, we follow a thread through scripture that reveals how truth answers accusation, how chosen silence can hold more power than self-defense, and why suffering can be mission rather than misfortune.
We walk through the moments where Jesus refuses shortcuts—rebuking Peter’s detour from the cross, rejecting the devil’s offers, and correcting charges of casting out demons by Beelzebub with cool, simple logic. Alongside, Job stands firm against friends who mistake pain for guilt. He doesn’t ask for rescue or flattering words; he asks for evidence. That contrast sharpens our understanding: Job embodies faithful confusion; Christ embodies willing purpose. Both honor truth—one by seeking it, the other by fulfilling it.
We also sit with Isaiah’s Suffering Servant who “opened not his mouth,” and consider how restraint is not weakness but witness. Right words have force when grounded in scripture and compassion; many words mean little without proof. This conversation offers a way to meet unfair criticism, guide our speech, and resist hollow judgment. If you’ve ever been talked over, misread, or pressured to defend yourself at any cost, these passages give a better path: ask for truth, reason well, and trust the kingdom that doesn’t need a sword to win.
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Some point, I can't pinpoint the scriptures, just the form first. You like that word? Form first.
SPEAKER_08:I haven't heard that word. That's a new one to me.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, yeah, it means it means a frustrated form, a glimmer of an idea. It's Latin. But uh the staff is at one point of trying to discourage him, and or he says to somebody, Shall I not drink the cup that the father's given me? You know, he's basically he's basically being, you know, he's told them he's gonna be taken by men and tore, you know, beaten and everything and put to death.
SPEAKER_07:Right.
SPEAKER_04:And, you know, he's he's a kind of resistance, and basically the same thing he says that, shall I not drink the cup that my father has for me to drink? And he's saying, Look, I don't need you to rescue me from my enemies because I'm embracing them because they're gonna help me accomplish what I came to earth for.
SPEAKER_08:All right. So so so far we got some good, we got some good answers that are not wrong, by the way. They're not wrong. Uh Sister Mariah, go ahead. What do you think?
SPEAKER_10:Um, it reminds me of when Jesus Christ was talking to Peter and telling them that he was going to have to um go to the cross and be delivered up um and then and unalived. Um and then Peter says it isn't so, and how he'll go and do X, Y, and Z for the Lord. And he says, Get thee behind me, Satan. Um, for this this is the work of God, and basically, and it needs to be fulfilled and be done.
SPEAKER_08:Right, absolutely. Uh, brother Lucky, what do you think?
SPEAKER_06:Man, they hit on every scripture that popped into my mind.
SPEAKER_08:There's still one left. There's one good one left, one meaty one.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I was just sitting there like, whoa. But um, I I I think um when uh when when John went to baptize Christ, and you know, he's like, Well, yes, I should be baptizing you. And he says, suffer it now to be so to fulfill all righteousness.
SPEAKER_08:So, how do you equate that with Joe telling his friends that I didn't ask you to deliver me from my enemy's hand or redeem me from the hand of the might?
SPEAKER_06:So, how I look at it is John is like, whoa, like you are way more than me. And I like how am I supposed to help you? You're you are the help, like you are the end-all beat all to everything. Like, what am I supposed to do here? Absolutely. But to get the situation through, to fulfill all righteousness, he had to do what he asked. These brothers aren't doing anything, and even what they should do, they're not doing, and he's asked nothing of them.
SPEAKER_08:That's right, Sister Lisa, and then Linda.
SPEAKER_03:Well, my first thought was that um when Jesus was saying to them, I think he was speaking to Pilate when he said, Um, you don't take my life. I don't know that I can't quote it right now, but I lay it down. And then he's talking to Pilate, and he's saying that his kingdom is not of this world, if it were um, his servants would fight um to prevent that.
SPEAKER_08:There we go, right there. That's what I'm looking for right there. That's it. If my kingdom were in this world, my servants would fight. That's what I'm looking for right there. That's it. All the other references everybody brought up, they're there, they are true. They are true. But this one is the one that that that addresses specifically what we see here happening in Job when he says, I didn't ask you to deliver me from my enemy's hand, nor redeem me from the hand of the mighty. Christ says, says that if my kingdom were in this world, my servants would fight. And he and so Christ is saying, if I needed that to happen, and remember, there this is this is when we look at what's happening with Job, we're sort of juxtaposing Job's words with Christ. And we know that Christ is far superior to Job or any man. But this is what I'm talking about. This is how we start to see Christ in the in these scriptures and look for the counter of what of or the elevated nature of what he is saying uh in contrast with what other men of God were saying. And we are able to see that the Lord Jesus Christ is far superior to all of them, to all of them. But that is exactly what I'm talking about. And that's exactly what we ought to be doing in the in in the word of God. It's such a beautiful thing. And so, and what all of this has shown me in everybody's response is that we are all thinking right along the same lines with Malchus's ear, with with I Lay Down My Life, and no one can take it above me. What's that? What's that, Lucky? Okay, miss talking off somebody else. Um, Linda, what do you think? Did you have something else you wanted to add?
SPEAKER_02:Um, I would have uh I was gonna say, although that was a good one. Um I was gonna say, um, when Jesus said to the devil, um, I don't need the worldly things that you want to offer me. I will go by God's word and what he wants alone.
SPEAKER_08:Absolutely. Absolutely. All these things are are are very true, uh, and and and they're good. And I'm not just placating. These are true things, all of these. But but when Christ says, if my servants, if my kingdom were or this world, my servants would fight. So what he so what is he so now? Let me ask the question. Let me ask the question. Job is saying that that uh I didn't ask you to Ellie Father and his friends, I didn't ask you to deliver me from the enemy, I didn't ask you to deliver me from the hand of the mighty. Now, on the other hand, Christ says, Christ says, if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight. So what is what is Christ saying? Christ is saying this. He's going, listen, unlike Job, he's going, I have the wherewithal to call upon legions of angels. I have that ability, I can do that with the blink of an eye.
SPEAKER_07:I can do that, but I won't. I don't need to.
SPEAKER_08:I don't need to. Christ went headlong into his suffering, knowing full well what he would do. Job didn't. Job had no idea. Job had no idea why he was going through this suffering and infliction. Job's to the point where I want to take my life. Christ knew exactly his mission was to suffer and to lay down his life. So you see the when you look at that, when you make that justiposition between these two, you see the parallels, but you see one side of it from the frailty of a of a human man, godly nonetheless, but frail nonetheless, and Christ uh humiliating himself in the sense that he became man, subjected himself to suffering intentionally, suffered himself to go to the cross intentionally, with the purpose and the sole goal and mission of redeeming his people. It's such a beautiful picture. And when you look at the word of God, as when you when and what I'm trying to encourage all true believers to do is to find this stuff in the word of God, just like you guys are doing tonight. It's beautiful and it encourages my soul. It really does, and I and I'm sure I'm sure it's reciprocated. And so this is what we need to keep doing. And throughout this book, in every book that we go through, let's keep let's keep this up because it's a beautiful thing to see happening with God's people, and I love it. Brother Jeff, man of God, go ahead.
SPEAKER_04:He could have just said stop and he could have walked out of there. Right. Nobody could have touched him.
SPEAKER_08:No, no, that's what I mean. He he he willfully subjected himself to it, right? I mean, he really did. He he he he we we see think about it this way, brother Jeff. Uh Job was a godly man. He was a godly man. God told us. And we see his what his responses are, and his responses are probably the best that can be elicited from a man, even a godly man. But we see when we contrast the godliest man on earth at the time with the son of God, and we see that difference in terms of his elevated approach to our salvation, it makes us glorify him more and more, the savior. This isn't something what we're reading here, what we are gathering from these words, these are not the words of man. They can't be the words of man. We know that God uses the agency of men to write his word. God doesn't have to, you know, be the hand of in Belshazzar's uh uh dinner uh dining room. But these words aren't the words of these these can only be the words of God. Sister Candy, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01:I just want to say in Psalms 147.3, he says he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 145.14, he says, the Lord holds, upholds all those who fall and lifts up all those who are broken down. And in Hosea, when he says, Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us. He has injured us, but he will bind up our wounds. After two days, he will revive us, and on the third day, he will restore us that we may live in his presence. And then I want to go back to um 22 and 23 of Job. It's like he's telling his friends, and I'm gonna I have to go back to my stance from where I came from yesterday as well on this, because this is Job talking to somebody who is coming at him as if he did something that he didn't, and they're so much more righteous than I am, not really knowing the circumstances at hand and not even taking into consideration God's love and showing me what is supposed to be instilled in them through him. So when he says, um, did I ever no, Job, I didn't ask you to come here and grieve with me. I didn't ask you for anything. I didn't ask you to deliver me, I didn't ask you to pay for them to save my whatever, whatever it was. I didn't ask them to do anything. And I love 24 through 30 because that's just Job, in my opinion. Man, it might be my flesh seeing what he's saying, but boy, I'm telling you what, when it comes from the perspective that I'm coming from, when I hear him say that to these people, teach me. So it's like, okay, if you know so much, then tell me what I don't know.
SPEAKER_08:We're gonna get to that right next, Ken. We're gonna get into that, we'll get into that next.
SPEAKER_01:Well, then let me hold my tongue like he says he would do.
SPEAKER_08:All right, all right. I love it when people get fired up. I love it. Okay. So now, verse 24. As Candy was about to address, and and and one reason why I stopped the sister is because I I want to ask everybody again. Verse 24, I want you to start thinking about a corresponding uh reference to Christ, whether by his own words or whether by inference or whether by prophecy, something that relates, uh, that we can relate Christ to with invert with verse 24. Now, so Job says this to his friends, and and I and I agree with Candy. This is where, because Job, right now, the gloves have come off. In verses 22, starting at verse 22, the gloves come off. All right, he's telling them straight, no more metaphorical language. So he says in verse 24, and and the picture, the the imagery that I get in my mind when I read it, when I put myself there, I'm seeing Job going like, all right, all right, I had enough. All right, since you know so much, verse 24, teach me, teach me, and I will hold my tongue. Cause me to understand where I have erred. And I can see Joe sitting back going, okay, teach me. What did I do? What did where where is your evidence? What are the facts of this situation? If you know that my situation is worthy of your suspicion, if I am guilty, show me wherein I have erred. This is what he's saying. Since you know so much, tell me. Tell me what, because I don't know. And I and I don't believe that Joe was being um, he may have he may have had a little, uh, you know, you I believe that he might have been a little heated. But here's the thing it was warranted. So he's saying, listen, all right, let me give you a shot. Let me give you a shot. Teach me. You you teach me. Educate me on me. Educate me on how God is dealing with me. Since you know so much, and I'm gonna hold my tongue while you do this. Cause me, help me to understand my fault. Help me to understand my fault. So now he turns from this sort of like, he doesn't, he he, I don't get the picture that he has this, that he that he's sort of going away from this lamenting aspect, this sort of crying out for for for comfort. Now he's going into this, like, now he's starting to get into his mind. And he's going, and he's like, now it's time for me to reason with you. Let's let's deal with, let me appeal to your reasoning. Let me do that. And so, what does he do? He extends to them an invitation, and he tells them, if you know what I have done wrong, please tell me what have I done wrong? He also shows that he's willing to be taught, he's willing to put himself down and give them an opportunity to tell him what it is he needs to learn. And so, and he's showing also that he's not just going to subscribe to just this unlimited uh defense of himself and this and this pride, this stubborn, stiff-necked sort of pride.
SPEAKER_07:He said, I'm not gonna be that way. I'm not gonna be like you. So he says, Tell me, what is it? Brother Jeffrey, encouraging servant. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_05:Well, Jonathan, as you explained it and put it out there in the way that you did, now my thinking may be off the mark here, but my thought is I'm reminded of the Pharisees coming to Jesus and trying to trip him up and making accusations against him and saying, prove to us that you are who you say you are. And there they they refuse to hear what they have to say, what Jesus has to say. And as the his Job's friends are refusing to listen to what he's trying to say. He's they're both Job and Jesus are trying to get these people to see the truth that they are speaking. And they are both willing, unwilling, excuse me, to hear that truth. Right.
SPEAKER_08:But here's what I've here's here's what I want to focus on. Let's look at the text. Because if if and I'm I'm not sure you were going there, Jeff, or not, but or I'm not sure you if you were trying to address the Christ connection in this whole thing. You may have, may not be, I'm not really sure. But when I finish the next couple of uh comments that I want to make about this, you know, and I'm hoping that everyone is thinking about what correlation they can make between Christ, like I said, whether prophesied about him, whether it's his own words, whatever, and what Job says here about teaching me, and I will hold my tongue and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Because here's the problem the issue we're dealing with here is Job being told what his situation is, and it is wrong. So, in other words, Job is saying, I know that something is wrong, but I know that what you're saying is wrong is not right. So, what we're dealing here, what we're dealing with here is a a false assessment of Job. So what we're looking for is something similar when it comes to Christ. Now, what what Job is rejecting from from them are accusations that they have not been able to prove. That they haven't been able to prove. Now, Job himself doesn't know what it is, he just knows that he didn't do anything contrary to God. But he doesn't know why he's dealing with these circumstances that he's that he's uh he's undergoing. But what he is willing to do right now, as you tell as he tells his friends, he goes, listen, I'm willing now to keep my mouth shut. I'm willing to keep my mouth shut and to accept your rebuke on one condition. That what you tell me is grounded in the truth. That's all I'm asking for. Tell me the make sure that it is it there is a foundation for here. Because if you do that, it will be a help to me. And this is essentially this is essentially what he is asking. Yes, like Mariah says, apply it to me. Tell me what is wrong and apply it to me, and demonstrate why and how. And this is this is what he wants. You're just giving me a bunch of words without any instruction, without any assessment on the reality of your position, which is to accuse and to judge, with a readiness to condemn, but there's no there's no compassion and sympathy is not on the menu. And Job wants to order from that menu. So his challenge exposes the weakness of his own case. And he's and he's saying, and he and he's he's telling them, okay, I'm I'm letting you have the floor now. That's what he's doing. You have the floor now. But see, they are not gonna demonstrate what his sin is. They're not going to be able to do it. Brother Lucky, what do you think?
SPEAKER_06:Okay, so I'm going to start with the light bulb first. Because when you said what you said, it popped right in my head. Like every time the Pharisees came up against him, and he they're like, You're doing this wrong and you're doing that wrong. You're sinning. And he was like, He hit him with a parable, he'd be like, How? In what way, shape, or form am I sinning? Like, if you go, uh the one that just popped in my head is like, if you save your your donkey out of the pit or your sheep out of the pit on the Sabbath day, you're still doing the right thing, and you're telling me healing a home a man on the Sabbath day is a sin. No. And then before that, I was thinking, like, Job, I'm going back to chapter one. Like, all right, God already said this about me. He don't know God said that about him, but that's who he is. He was chilling at home praying for his family, like he's supposed to be doing, like he always did, and this all just happened to him. So, as far as he knows, like, I'm doing the same thing I've been doing every day. Like, this should have happened 20 years ago if it was if that's the case, but nothing has changed about my behavior. So, how y'all coming at me with this bull crap when I know who I am? Right. That's the same thing that Jesus was saying to the uh Pharisees and the Sadducees, like, like you don't know what you're talking about. But I'll give you the chance to speak.
SPEAKER_08:Right. No, absolutely, brother. I mean, you you're you're going down you're going down the right path that I want to go down with. You know, Christ being accused of things that was not true, that were not true. And that's and so, you know, so you you you got the uh what what do you call it? You got the memo, basically. Sister Mariah, what do you think?
SPEAKER_09:Um well what came to my mind, and excuse me, I was dealing with my children, so I'm not really sure if brother uh Lucky said this, but you know, where they were saying, like, you're casting out um the demons by Beelzebub.
SPEAKER_07:Yes.
SPEAKER_09:And he said um, you know, that can a house divide it against its self stand? That's what I'm thinking about.
SPEAKER_08:Excellent one. Excellent. We got two good ones so far, two very good ones. Absolutely. See, they saw Jesus casting out demons, but they started, they they started saying, no, he was casting out demons, but he wasn't doing it by the power of God. He was doing it by the power of the devil himself. They were lying about him, they were falsely accusing him. This is exactly this is exactly what is happening in Job's case. You're accusing me falsely. Bring me the proof. You know, and then Christ reasoned with them in that instance, and he says, Listen, if that's true, like Mariah said, how can a fight at the house stand? He goes, so, and he says, by reason, by reasoning, and this is what Job is doing here, reasoning with them. And so what Christ was saying, let's follow logic for a second. How does that make sense if Satan is fighting against himself? But he goes, if by reason I can make you understand what I know you do understand, then there's only one other alternative that we can rationalize how I'm doing this, and that is by the finger of God. And that's what Christ said. Sister Lisa, go ahead.
SPEAKER_03:What I was thinking about is, you know, the the miserable comforters are, you know, they're basically accusing Job. And I'm thinking of Christ's teachings, um, where he's saying, Do not judge, or you too will be judged, or in the same way you judge others, you will be judged. So with the met measure you use, it will be measured to you. Um that's what I'm thinking of when Job is telling him, go tell me, if you're so smart, you know, he's basically saying, you know, show it to me. And basically, like you said, he's he's he's convicted now, or if what's the word? That's not the right word, convicted. He's is it indicting? I don't know. He's showing that them, what they're doing, they're actually making this judgment on him that's not true. And if and and he's he's basically telling them to show it to me. Right, yeah, no, that's what was coming to my mind.
unknown:Right.
SPEAKER_08:What you said is what you're about to say was correct. He was he was he's basically leveling an indictment against them and challenging them to prove um their accusations about him that his situation is a result of sin.
SPEAKER_03:And when it wasn't Christ warns us not to do that, right?
SPEAKER_08:That's right. He absolutely does. Don't bear false witness, it's in the law of God Himself, you know. But yeah, Christ tells us to do the very same thing. Don't false, don't false swear. You know. Um, Sister Candy, go ahead. What were you gonna say?
SPEAKER_01:I'm like, he's being sarcastic in this, and it's it's beautiful how he does it, because he does it holy. I mean, to me, you don't get no more other than how Jesus was. But it's kind of like when when Jesus turned to Peter and said, Satan, get behind me, because what Peter what came out of Peter's mouth was not of Peter that Jesus knew, you know what I mean? So it's like, get behind me, Satan, and the same thing Job is dealing with with his friend. Like, this is not of God coming out your mouth to your friend, your brethren, so to say, in Christ.
SPEAKER_07:Right.
SPEAKER_01:So, okay, I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you benefit of the doubt. Say everything you said was true, then then tell me what I'll do, and I will stop my complaining. I will confess, I will do whatever I need to do. But tell me what I did that that justifies what you are saying to me.
SPEAKER_07:Right.
SPEAKER_01:Because it doesn't make sense. Nothing is clicking, like there's nothing I can recollect in remembrance to warrant this. So once again, my trust is in God, his will be done, and he works all things for my good. Because, like he said in the beginning to his wife, do I not take the bad with the good? So I'm taking you with my circumstances on top of everything else.
unknown:Yep.
SPEAKER_01:So when it rains, it pours, here we are. God, I'm still with you. I don't blame you. Just help me get through this.
SPEAKER_07:Right.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, he says, basically, uh, God tells me that I won't, He won't leave me as an orphan. You know what I mean? So what you're doing is you're overwhelming me like God's gonna leave me because I did something, and that ain't even the circumstances here. So you're you're literally telling someone, and I'm speaking not in Joe right now, but this is for those who want to tell somebody that because they do wrong, that God's not gonna help them because they're doing wrong. No, we we don't have to get right before we come to him. He wants us to, he, he meets us where we are. That's how we come to him. It undermine your friend. Like, y'all haven't been around me long enough to know that have I have I have you ever seen me do anything wrong? You know what I mean? Like, Joe's not being probably as anxious and excited as my voice probably sounds not in those days anyway, right, with the verbiage, but at the same time, like would I have I ever lied to you? Is that of me? Like, have you ever known me to be what's the word I want to say, um oh manipulative, so to say? You know what I'm saying? Have I ever tried to manipulate you to think that I'm doing right when it's actually wrong? The injustice part of it, right? You know, I've never tried to trick nobody to think that I didn't do anything wrong and trying to hide it and cover it up.
SPEAKER_07:Right.
SPEAKER_01:No. So my taste, I love this part, the last verse of of tonight, if we get there, is about that tasteless white egg.
SPEAKER_08:All right. We'll come we'll we'll come back to that. We'll get back to it. Let me get around, let me get around the group here. Brother Jim, man of God, what are your thoughts?
SPEAKER_04:What are my thoughts? Well, you know, I I was to reach around in my mind to figure out, you know, based on the context of verse 20, you know, basically uh my new King James says, Teach me and I will hold my tongue, cause me and understand uh wherein I have erred. And, you know, I just know there's somewhere in the New Testament where Jesus says something, you know, along those lines. I just can't put my finger on it. It's basically, you know, I I mean I thought it was like when he was before the high priest and he says something, they they they you know, they uh the high priest says something and he says something back, and they they say, Well, don't you know you're addressing the high priest? And he goes, Well, I didn't know he was the high priest, although really he did, but you know. But uh anyway, I I guess I can't be that helpful. I can't put my finger on it, I just know it's there.
SPEAKER_07:That's all right. That's all right. Zelinda, what do you think? What do you have for us?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so um I was thinking in terms of um uh job, he is asking for answers, but Christ he gave answers. Or he he would um um ask something as a parable, use a parable. Um and he would call out their hypocrisy, basically. And I think that Job is is um going in that direction. So the similarity, because I sort of read uh chapter 16, and that's I I misread your your note and I went to 16 instead of six uh chapter 516, I went to sixteen.
SPEAKER_07:That was the racist.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I sort of already seen it, but um, yeah, I think he's he's he's getting ready to um blast them basically. Um and very much like Christ, and Christ did it in a subtle way, um and and and a calm way to um throw him off guard. Um and he would he he would you know just out and out call him um hypocrites, you know. Um so that's that would be my comment.
SPEAKER_08:Right, no problem.
unknown:Mr.
SPEAKER_08:Mick, you want to add anything? I know you got in a little late, but you want to add anything to it if you were listening?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I I think that in these verses, again, we can see Christ in a lot of these things. We can see that, you know, a lot of Job didn't exploit his friends. And Jesus didn't exploit anybody either. And though they talked bad about him, they talked bad about our Lord and Savior, they despised and rejected him, and he still remained faithful. Another verse in like 20, I think the um another thing that happened was many of the disciples wanted to turn away after following Jesus. It goes along the lines with, you know, they uh what verse? I think it was 20. I have to go look. I'm I was just putting up Christ Christmas lights, glory to God. But um, but yeah, there's there's so much comparison that we can think about and reflect on our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ when we think about what Job was going through during this chapter. And I think it just is a testament and makes me feel so grateful about what he did for each and every one of us.
SPEAKER_08:Right. All right. Uh did I I think I got Jeffrey, did I get to you? Encouraging servant, did I get to you on this one?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, Jonathan, you did. I had a chance to say what I wanted, and I just let me echo. Everybody in the panel tonight gave an excellent answer to this, Jonathan, at least in my opinion. You really got us all with our thinking cap on tonight. So well done, brother. You you got us all thinking hard tonight. So keep it going. Love you, man.
SPEAKER_08:So let me let me let me uh tell you what I came up with and add to what everybody else has been saying, which has all been very good. So verse 24, he says, Job says to his friends, he goes, Listen, teach me. If I have something wrong with me, teach me, and I'm gonna be silent. And cause me to un but cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Point out what's going on. So it made me look at two passages of scripture. I took one in the old testament, one in the new. And in Isaiah 53, verse 7, it says this Isaiah says about Christ, the coming Messiah, he was oppressed. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers, he is dumb. He opened not his mouth. He was silent. He let them say, had their say. And this is the connection that I was making. And I'm saying, everything that everybody's been so has been putting forth, it contributes to this whole sort of perspective. There's there's many facets to this diamond that our Lord is, this jewel that he is. And so, and I'm just showing you the part of the facets that I saw. And so when I hear all of you, it just adds to it. Another one that came to my mind, and when I was making my notes on the chapter, was in Acts 8 32, where it says, the place of the scripture which was read, I mean, which he read was this he was led to the sheep as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth. Quoting obviously Isaiah 53. And so what I and so what I'm saying here is that, and I and I'm putting the emphasis on the part where he says, I will hold my tongue. I will be silent. You are opposing me, you are accusing me, so I'm gonna be silent. And he had a good reason to be silent because he had a very good witness. He had a very good witness. His father. He had a very good witness. And so these are the words that came, these are a couple of the verses that came to me. And there were many others, but I wanted to make sure that I had at least a couple so we can sort of go through and just have it on our on our minds to think about it. Now we come to verse 25. Job says, on top of saying and challenging them to bring forth him the assessment of how he has erred. Now he says, How forcible, because now he's encouraging them. I'm gonna be silent, you speak, but tell me things that are true and show me how I have erred. And now he says, How forcible are right words, and then he says, But what does your arguing reprove? In other words, he's he's saying, right words are forcible. There's a lot of force that comes with right words, but he's asking them, but what does your arguing reprove? And so what he's telling them is that what you're saying is not getting there, it's not getting, it's not hitting the mark. True words will do that, but your words aren't providing any truth, they're not doing anything that proves to be forcible. So he's asking them, give me the right words, give me the forcible words, and he's gonna tell them later on, you're gonna know, you're gonna know if what you're telling me is true. You'll see it on my own face. So Job is acknowledging the the strength of words if they are grounded in truth. In other words, if you're gonna speak the truth, they are gonna have an impact that is undeniable. That's undeniable. And so, and he's saying, and he's saying that those the right words will have force and they will hit the heart and they will affect the heart with power. There will be, he's he's saying, if you say, if you speak true words, if you speak true words to me, it's going to affect me and it will bring to me the conviction that you think I need to have. And so, but what the problem with his friends are, as we have been saying throughout this series, is that they give great grand speeches, they give sharp speech, they have cutting tongues like so many people can have, but they lack substance. And man, we have no shortage of that in this world. People talking but saying nothing. Multiplicity of words always leveled at you because of what you believe and what you hold to the truth, whatever. And then people will talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, but there's no substance to it whatsoever. And what he's saying is that if what basically what he's saying is this if you're gonna say something, you better know what you're talking about. That's what he's saying. That's what he's saying. And he's telling them right now, right now, you don't know what you're talking about. That's what he's saying. And this should be a reminder to all of us as Christians. I can tell you firsthand.