LIVE: "Can a Man Be Profitable Unto God?" (Job 22:1-9), Part 3/4

Someone suffers and suddenly everybody becomes a detective. We’ve all seen it: a person is hit with grief, loss, sickness, or collapse, and the crowd starts building a story that makes the pain feel explainable. Job 22 confronts that instinct head-on, and we take our time walking through it because the stakes are pastoral, not theoretical.

We talk about Job’s “friends” and why their words land more like mockery than comfort. Along the way we wrestle with God’s providence, Satan’s limited freedom in Job’s trial, and the uncomfortable reality that understanding is not just about IQ. Spiritual sight is a gift God gives, and when we forget that, we start treating our opinions like verdicts. That’s where debates become dangerous: style can sound impressive while substance disappears, and “being right” can matter more than loving the person in front of us.

Then we get into the turning point in Job 22: Eliphaz moves from probing questions to blunt condemnation, claiming Job’s wickedness is great and even naming specific sins like withholding bread and water, sending widows away empty, and crushing the fatherless. We test those charges against what God already declared about Job, and we unpack how projection, envy, and self-righteous judgment can turn religious language into cruelty. If you care about biblical counseling, Christian suffering, and faithful discernment, this conversation is for you.

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Transcript

Are They Really Job’s Friends

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Think they want him to be innocent. But that's because Satan's put it in their hearts not to be the way that they want him to be. And uh what was the put the rest of the question? Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 0:11

No, he just asked, he just asked, oh, a good question I asked, which was, what's your perspective on his friends?

SPEAKER_00 0:18

I think that they're just they're mocking him. They're mocking his innocence because they have no idea that he is innocent. So they're mocking him, and even though they don't realize it, that's what they're doing.

SPEAKER_04 0:33

Right. Absolutely. Yeah, it's it's really interesting because I believe that these guys, uh, because we keep going back and forth about them being his friends, and uh, and and like we talked last night, I I believe that they all believed that they had a friendship. But like what Sister Vanessa just said, I believe that they I believe that their temperament has been fashioned by the craft of the depth Satan himself. Because remember, God gave He gave Satan leave to do whatever he wanted to Job, minus taking his life. You know, and so I think that um but I think either way it goes, right now we we don't see them behaving like friends. And like uh uh like Brother Joseph says, they're they're anything but friendly. They have exhibited nothing that we could call comforting. And how could they be friends and not do this? But I also believe that this is an extraordinary situation. And that and the and Satan was let loose in a way that he had no restraint. No restraint. The only thing that he could lay, the only thing that he had that he was told to do, don't you lay a finger on his on his life. That was it. And so I believe that even their their their um uh uh the way they're dealing with Job, it might not have been might not have been the same way had the circumstances not been as extreme as they were. And um, but again, who who you know who knows? But what we do know for sure, they are certainly not acting like friends if they ever were. That's evident. That's that's that's for sure. And so, and and and it gets us to the point where we have this narrative to sort of glean truth in how we need to conduct ourselves in the in the when we are confronted with another brother or sister who is suffering. Um, and we we have to be careful not to go down this path where we start making these assumptions about how God is dealing with them when there's no way for us to know. No way for us to know at all. Uh, brother Jeffrey and then Rod. Or no, I'm sorry. Did I miss you, Meg? Did I get you? Meg? Okay. Uh Brother Jeffrey and then and then Rod.

SPEAKER_06 3:34

Jonathan, I think uh Job's friends here are more concerned with being right than whether or not Job is innocent, as he claims.

SPEAKER_08 3:48

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 3:48

And I and and and see, I I that's you said a moment ago that Job's friends were uh would be against us very good debaters. I'm not so sure I agree with that. To me, Jonathan, these guys can't discern truth. Right. They couldn't debate their way out of a paper bag.

unknown 4:09

Right.

SPEAKER_06 4:10

Okay? They they Job is is is repeatedly telling them the truth, the truth, the truth. They don't want to hear it. They don't. Their hearts are as cold as ice and hard as a rock. It just bounces off. Job from what we can see so far, everything he says just goes in one ear and, like I said, and out the other. And so I just, you know, Job's friends here, again, uh are just totally missing everything. I mean, it it's amazing. And there's the lesson there for us not to be Jonathan in that position as Job's friends are, if we're ever in a similar situation like that.

SPEAKER_04 4:57

Right. Yeah, but and and for the record, Jeffrey, what I said was is that were it not for the operation of the Holy Spirit in us, yes, they would be astute debaters.

SPEAKER_07 5:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:09

And and so, but it but what you said is true, brother. And and I'll tell you, I'll tell you this, because I I can't tell you. Sometimes when I get up in the morning and I'm you know getting things ready for the day, I will um scroll through um and listen to a few people's uh lives and whatever. I listen to Eric's Montoya's uh quite a bit because he's a very practical guy, and and um, but there are sometimes throughout the day, whatever, well, I may I may stumble upon somebody in the live, and some of you have been in some of these lives, and I will be listening, and there will be somebody in the in the the the call or the the session saying something that is blatantly wrong. And the people, there are people in there that know that they're wrong, but they don't have they don't they they can't they don't bring they can't bring the argument, they can't find the argument. And see, Christians, we need to prepare ourselves from having ourselves caught in this situation. Because when you have a, when you start to develop a thoroughgoing understanding of the scriptures and tying these things together, you will have that. But there are some times I'll I'll be sitting there listening and I'm going like, oh man, uh, you know, answer that question. That's an easy one. Get this guy, get this girl, get this person, this is wrong, get this. And sometimes you you sit there and you wait in vain, uh, and the answer doesn't come. And there have been many times where I'll thinking, oh man, I want to get in here and but but um some and my point is this you can get people who are very astute at debate that doesn't make them right in what they're debating about. And see, you you know, and so this becomes an issue of style over substance, and we need to be focused always on substance. Substance and keeping it uh uh simple. You know, you you you know, there's all these people that get on there and they like to throw out all this all this stuff about the fathers and the Hebrew and the Greek and the Council on Nicaea, the Senate of the door of the catechisms and this and that and the other. And it's like it's so stupid. They do this to try to take you into some arena where even they don't understand the rules and they don't see the guardrails. And they know that because if they don't, they they assume you don't. And so we we we have to become Bereans. We have to become Bereans, and you won't always get it right. I don't always get it right. We won't, none of us will get everything right all the time. But we have to be able to come in and be able to get the basic things that we need to understand and learn how to apply these things. That's why it's important, and this is one reason why I picked the book of Job. Because when you look at all these things and they all connect, it makes your arguments so much easier. And then you realize you're not even debating, you're just proclaiming the truth, and it does everything for you. The word of God does it all. I know I'm on a little bit of a of a high horse here, but it's just I want to encourage you all, because it's so important that, especially in this day and age, that the Christians get down into the word of God and really learn it. And and and because it will be a tremendous blessing to your soul. And um, and we just need more of that. We need more folks that are that are willing to get out there and mix it up. Um, brother Rod and then Mariah.

SPEAKER_07 9:04

Yeah, so I just want to kind of come, Cam to it seems like, you know, like people don't actually trust God, you know, they just like maybe trust like you said, trust the formula that they that they created, that they created about him. So, you know, it made me pose the question, like, you know, do we really trust God? Like, you know, do we just trust our own understanding of you know how we think he should work? Right. Right. You know. Just a question I had. A comment, really, but yeah. Yep. And a good one, and a good one.

SPEAKER_04 9:36

Mariah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

So I was just wondering, um a few chapters back, Job says that God has hid the um understanding from their hearts. And it makes me wonder if he hid their understanding from their hearts that Satan may use them in a way that they are being used.

Providence And Spiritual Sight

SPEAKER_04 10:00

Absolutely. I I believe that a hundred percent. I believe that I believe that a hundred percent. And I believe that that's that's generally the case all the time. I mean, you know, you you if if we understand truly, if we understand truly that God is behind all outcomes, if we really believe that he that his providence is his governance over all things, then when people don't understand things, it is because he has hid them from their eyes. He's hid them. And um, and then and when you have been given illumination, it is not because you suddenly developed a certain amount of intellectual capacity to grasp these things. No, it's not about intellect, it's about being given the ability to see. And when so when and so when the scriptures we we we see how Christ uh gave sight to the blind and these and and and things like that, sight to the blind. Well, when he gives sight to the blind, now they see. And but he he's showing us that what we need to be looking for is to be receiving that spiritual sight that allows us to see him. Remember when he healed those two, those ten, was it, ten lepers that he healed, and one came back? And he asked, What happened to the other nine? Well, they did the other nine, they didn't see. He opened their eyes, I mean, or he healed them of their of their disease, but they still didn't see him. Only one did. And I forget, and Christ said, he said something like, uh, and I can't remember, if somebody remembers it, what he said, I can't think of it off the top of my head. He says, um, what happened to the what happened to the other nine? Whereas this one person, and I think he said something like, where this beggar came, or this beggar came, or this Samaritan. I can't remember what he said. But if somebody can find it, remind me, because I just can't remember what his response was. But he he he talks about that the least, the least likely of those ten is the only one who came and acknowledged him and worshiped him for what he had done. But, you know, we see this all the time. So verse 5, Job 22, good conversation so far, everybody. I really appreciate it. Verse 5, Job says, or Elipha says, now this is after he asked this question about, you know, does God reprove you out of fear? Then he goes on and says, now here's where he starts getting this is where he starts getting really nasty. He tells Job, is not your wickedness great and your iniquity, your iniquities infinite? Or not your is not your wickedness great and thy iniquities are infinite? Now the first thing that I want to say here on this is that notice the language, is not your wickedness great, is not your iniquities, uh, it's not your wickedness great, and is not your iniquities infinite, as if he has none himself. Meaning, meaning um uh Eliphaz. You know, he's speaking about wickedness and iniquity, about Job having it, but he talks about it in such a way as though he doesn't have it himself. Brother Pat, go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 13:40

Well, that that's the best part about judging other people, isn't it? When we're judging other people, we don't have to talk about me and my problems, right? Look at that guy over there, right?

SPEAKER_04 13:51

Thy wickedness, thine iniquities are infinite. Not mine, yours. Thine. This is the first thing that he that he throws out. See, he thinks he's already made his case. He thinks he's he got deep and profound. And now he's going, so now Joan, based on the natural response to my last questions, let me ask you another one now. Let me ask you now the real the real question Is not your wickedness great? Are not is not are not your iniquities infinite? So now he is shifting from his questions and going in directly with accusation. And he draws a very severe conclusion from this. And he's saying it once again, great suffering, such as what you have, Job, great suffering, such as what you have, must imply great sin. This is what he's talking about. An infinite is not necessarily without number, but it just means that it's big. He's exaggerating, but he's saying your sin, Job, based on what we can see, must be something of extraordinary measure, beyond measure. And so this is what he's dealing with. And he thinks he's landing the plane. He thinks he's landing the plane here, here. And so, and so the inflictions that are endured by Job, they are interpreted by his friends as being as being evidence of exceptional wickedness. So Job's not just a marginal sinner in their eyes, he's a great sinner in their eyes. You know, one of imagin unimaginable import. He he's a he's a serious sinner, not a nominal one, but a great one. And so he assumes that the hidden causes of Job's present misery, he assumes that it is a vast store of hidden and unrepented sin. And the only thing that is problematic is that Job won't deal with it. He won't fess up. And it may not even be something that is outward. But what he's saying is that Job, you have a deep-seated, deep-rooted sin, and this is the reason why you are suffering. This is the reason why you're suffering. Sister Savannah, what do you think? Your thoughts.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Yeah, again, I just think that his Job's so-called friends are just um they're so like um insecure of themselves that um not only are they and like not only are they envious of Job's um you know his what he had, his prosperity, now they're they look at him and think, uh well, great, you know, like this is a great opportunity to, you know, um, you know, slander you and all that stuff because they're because they were envious. But also they're they're subconsciously, like deep down, they're projecting their own like insecurities onto Job because uh you know, because even though they even though they might not see it themselves, like deep down I think they realize that Job is a man of God, but that they're just uh envious of that too, maybe, and that's why they're you know that that maybe that's why they don't let up with the you know with the tongue lashing.

SPEAKER_04 18:17

Amen, sister. Amen. Brother Pat and then two witness next. Pat and then two.

SPEAKER_05 18:24

You know, brother um Jonathan, listening to this part of the dialogue that's going on in Job, you remember the Sermon on the Map, and Jesus is he gets into teaching, judge not, lest ye be judged, and he gives this teaching, right? Right. I'm I'm putting myself in the shoes of a Jewish person who was raised reading the book of Job. How does this not come to mind? Right? Like judge rightly, right? And and the words that you're saying, they're gonna be used against you. Be very careful about your judgments.

SPEAKER_04 19:04

Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, you know, and and this this is again, Pat, this is one of them kind of things where this this way of speaking is so widespread today, still. It's still so when you look when you when you consider how old the book of Job is, the oldest in the entire Bible, it's astonishing. It's astonishing that that in general, these are still lessons that we haven't learned. And it's right here in the Word of God. It's right here in the Word of God. And so, um, but you're right, brother. This is like if this has been, if this, if these doctrines have been your bread and butter, how is it that you're not nourished thereby? And you it's a good question to ask. It's a really good question to ask, but it's also a good opportunity for us to retune our own spiritual hearts and souls and to ensure that we purge out anything that would incite us into pursuing this type of judgment against another brother or sister. It's difficult. And I know that I have been guilty of this kind of judgment in the past. And so, and this, you know, so these things need to be, there's there's a habit, uh, there's a habitual aspect that goes along with the sinful nature that it is difficult for us to sometimes shed. And sometimes the impulses that we, that we, that we get seize upon us so swiftly that we respond before we had a chance to think. And so, and and it and it's very hard because so we have to tame that unruly aspect of our sinful, depraved natures and focus on that spiritual side that we've been given through our new birth. And let that let that dead person that was that that that let that dead, depraved soul that was in us, let it continue to die. We must continue to destroy it and to resist it. Two witnesses. Welcome to the talk, my friends, and uh, my friend, and and uh glad you're here. Good evening.

SPEAKER_08 21:20

Thank you, good evening. Uh yeah, this is this is heavy because I I was just reading Isaiah 58 uh early today, and they thought they uh well I'm I don't remember her name, uh Grace After or something. She said that her friends, his friends were projecting or are projecting. And I think she's up to something because they just not say the job scenes are great and infinite, but they name them as we continue to read. And pretty much what they're telling him is I Isaiah 58. They're declaring that he right, we we will read it. But that's pretty much what uh uh Isaiah is portraying as the fasting that the Lord's the Lord desires. Right. And it's very interesting because the conclusion of Isaiah chapter 58 is the uh if the people do this right if they fast in the way that the Lord wants, which is to feed the poor and clothe the naked and welcome the homeless, which is what these people are accusing Job of not doing. Right. But Isaiah says that if they do this, then they will delight in the Lord. That's how you delight in the Lord. And it's very interesting because pretty much they're accusing him of innocence, right? And Job is delighting in the Lord, even in all this.

SPEAKER_04 22:56

Absolutely, brother. Absolutely. Good word. Uh, Sister Mariah, did I skip over you? Because in my notes, I didn't cross you off. Did I get to you? I'm sorry if I did, if I skipped you.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

No, you sir, you got me.

Testing Eliphaz’s Claims Against Job

SPEAKER_04 23:06

All right, good. All right, just want to make sure. All right. So now, these guys, and thank you for that two, two, and and and hang around with us, brother. Hang around for a while if you can. Appreciate you being here. So, verses seven through nine, I'm gonna read it because they because I put these together because they are stepping up their accusations against Job. Look what look look what he says. He says to Job, You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withholden bread from the hungry. But as for the mighty man, he had, but as for the mighty man, he had the earth, and the honorable and the honorable man dwelt in it. You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. Now, this is the first time, this is the first time that they that any of these friends of Job, so-called friends, have ever leveled any kind of a formal accusation or brought a formal charge. And I'm curious as to what this assessment is is derived from. Because well, here's what I'll do. Here's what I'll do. I'm gonna make this the last section for tonight, and I want to step up our conversation a little bit on this on this matter. Now, these guys, he's he just said this. Job hasn't given water to the weary, he hasn't he's with he's he he withheld bread. He withheld it. But as for the mighty man, he had the earth and the honorable man dwelt in it. And then he tells Job, you sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless broken. Let me ask it let me ask each one of you guys so far, and I just want one response, a quick response. Um yes or no on this question. Was this was this was Eliphaz telling Job the truth? Yes or no? Was he telling him the truth? Was does he have grounds for what he's saying? Does is there a foundation for what he's saying? So here's what I wanted you, here's what I'm gonna ask everybody. So here's what I'm gonna I'm gonna ask. What is your answer? Is it yes or no? They have they he must have a foundation for this accusation, and whatever your answer is, be brief, no sermons, state why you hold yes or no. Let me start with you, Meg. What do you think? All right, uh, brother Pat, what do you think?

SPEAKER_05 26:02

I say no because Job is described as a righteous uh man without fault before the Lord.

SPEAKER_04 26:08

Amen. Absolutely. Well, I guess that goes, I guess that can stop all the questioning.

SPEAKER_08 26:14

I I say yes.

SPEAKER_04 26:16

You say you say yes. You say you say they have a you you say that there is ground for this accusation.

SPEAKER_08 26:21

Yes, but not against Job. Because they know very well this is a judgment that they are not making. God makes this judgment against people in Isaiah 58. So they're stating the truth. It's it's not against Job, right? It's only not against him, it's against themselves.

SPEAKER_04 26:40

Right, right. But they're but but they are saying here, he's saying here, he's accusing Job of this, though. He's accusing Job of this.

SPEAKER_08 26:51

But I think they're accusing themselves, like without realizing.

SPEAKER_04 26:55

Oh, I I I get what you're saying, but I mean, but I mean, here specifically, this is now here's where here's what here's what I I I hope you're saying, I think you might be saying. Because Job, um they're making this accu this accusation, but it's a false, it is a false accusation. It's a false charge against Job. You're right, it's not against Job, and that's the important part. It's not against Job. But I think what you may be saying is is consistent with what Savannah said earlier, because that's who you referred to, which is that they are projecting onto Job, you know, things that they are probably doing. Is that a correct understanding?

SPEAKER_08 27:39

Exactly, because how do they know so specifically, like you say, this is the first time they bring up names of his things. So how do they know so specifically? It's because they know in themselves.

SPEAKER_04 27:51

I got you. I got you now. I I I think now I see what you're saying now. Sister Meg, what do you think? Yes or no, and why?

SPEAKER_02 28:01

Yes or no if it's a false statement?

SPEAKER_04 28:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:06

Um I say yes, it is a false statement.

SPEAKER_04 28:10

And and how do you know it's a false statement?

SPEAKER_02 28:13

Because again, back to the beginning of the chapter, the beginning of the book, right? Right. He he specifically deemed Job this. He declared this about Job, that he's perfect and upright man, one who fears God and escheweth evil. And so now they have moved into a place. Well, Eliphaz. Um, I'm kind of frustrated with this chapter tonight. I don't know why. Um I really am. I'm really upset. I get it. Um it's because he the Lord deemed him this, and now Eliphaz has moved to a state where he's directly judging Job. Right. They're about to get it. I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_04 28:52

He he he's now he he's getting this is getting serious now. He's he's directly, directly accusing Job. So you and Pat uh both said the same thing, and it's the truth. We know from the very beginning that God had declared Job a perfect and upright man who eschews evil and that fears God. And so so it's for that fact that we know that this is not true. And we need to, this is a perfect example of why we need to believe God and not man. And this is why we need to trust the word of God and not what comes out of the man, out of the mouth of men. And this also goes back to what I believe Rod said earlier. Um I'm losing my train of thought now, um, which is somebody said, I can't remember who said it, but somebody said or wrote in the in the in the comments that people when they are coming at you, telling you that some that what you're saying is not correct, and they're telling you what they believe is correct, and you reject it, even if you persuade them spiritually or mentally, they will never relent because they don't want to be wrong. And this is one of the arguments, this is one of the problems that you always that you see that prevails in so many of these disputes and arguments and these debates that we see on these lives and and not just on these lives, but everywhere. People don't want to be wrong, and if they've been found out to be wrong, if they lose the argument, they would rather stick to the argument than to admit that they have been convinced of their error. And so, and so I think this is what's happening right here. They're getting to the point where they where they where he Eliphars realizes, I need to put some meat on the bones here because we're not breaking ground with him. So now we're gonna accuse him of this whole thing and see how he responds. And it's it's a terrible, wicked thing. But see, we do this all the time. We don't want to be, we never want to be wrong. It's okay to be wrong, but what we need to do as believers is to study the word of God to show ourselves um uh um approved and to be Bereans and to rightly divide the word of God. All these things are intended to uh to convey to us that there needs to be a seriousness and a seriousness of death, and when we when we look into the scriptures, so that when we speak, we make it difficult for the things that we say to be gainsaid, for people to refute what these what these truths are. These guys are worn out, so now they're just making up lies now. Job, you didn't give people anything to drink, you didn't give them any bread to eat, you withheld it. And it gets and it gets even crazier um when he when he when he goes on. Sister Mariah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

I would say that yes, they are falsely accusing, and I want to have my answer or my why be um Eliphaz's uh response in chapter four. He says, Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the knees of the weak hands. Thy words have upholded him, and that was fallen, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees, but now it has come upon you, and thou faintest. It touched thee, and thou art trouble. So by his own words, he have already said that he has done these things for these people, but now you know that his time has come. There's a difference, sister.

SPEAKER_04 32:46

I miss that one. I miss that one. Beautiful, well done. Well done. This is the reason why we do this thing. That was excellent and way more complete than I was thinking. And that's exactly that's it. So we know it's an out and out lie. It's an egregious lie. And they admitted it. What verse, but that was in chapter four, right?

SPEAKER_03 33:17

Yes, chapter four, three through um six.

SPEAKER_04 33:23

Yep. That did not cross my mind. It didn't cross my mind. Excellent work, excellent work, and that's the truth. So there you go. I don't think it gets more more powerful than that. Because you you have them actually admitting the kind of man that Job was. Quote unquote. Excellent work, sister. Excellent work. That's what we that's why we do, that's why we do this. This this is that that's that's heavy. And I love it. I love it. Sister Vanessa, what do you think?

SPEAKER_00 33:59

Yes, I think they're falsely accusing. And I think they're just trying to justify why um Joe was suffering.

SPEAKER_04 34:07

Right, right. Yep, that's what they're trying to do. They're really trying to, they're they're they are now they are just trying to trying to get anything in, and they just and they can't, so now they're gonna come out and come out with a blatant lie. Blatant lie. And what Sister Mariah just brought up, that that's that's the nail in their in their in their hypocrisy. It prove it locks it down. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

I agree.

SPEAKER_04 34:32

Yep, absolutely. Sister Savannah, what do you think?

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Yes, I do think they they are um falsely uh accusing Job um, you know, the same thing as uh Sister Meg said is because well, God declared uh Job an uprighteous man. But I think it's important that we like really, you know, think about that and take into account like why, you know, because if we look back at um like Abraham, he was, you know, he was um God declared him righteous. Why? Because of his faith, because he had faith in God that he was gonna provide him a lamb. Like you know, the same, the same thing, um, you know, with with Moses, you know, and Noah, they all it's a very consistent pattern. It's not because of of anything that they did or that they were uh you know sinless, it was be it they were counted righteous because of their faith. So even if Job was like even if he did do what they said that he was doing, it's they still would not have any right to to to judge um Job because he was being faithful toward God.

Sins Of Omission And Favoritism

SPEAKER_04 36:03

Amen, sister. Very good, very well done. Um so he so here's the last thing that I'll bring out here, and then I'll give everybody their last word and we'll close it out. Uh this is it this is excellent. So it talks about all the things that he that he you know so you have two types of excuse me, two types of sin that they're accusing Job of. Three types actually. One sins of uh commission, two, sins of omission, and then three, being a respecter of persons. Notice what he says in the in the in in the passage. You given water, you have not given water to the weary, you withheld bread from the hungry, and below, and after that, he says, Um, you have sent widows to away empty, and the arms of the followers, uh the arms of the fatherless have been broken. But right now in the middle of it, he says to Job, but as for the mighty man, he had the earth, and the honorable, and the honorable man dwelt in it. So what what it says here what it says here in this middle part, and it's interesting why it's bracketed this way, because you have this these words sandwiched in between um um what Job, how he treats the you know, um the weary and the hungry and the widows and the fatherless. And right in the middle between this, he talks about Job's treatment of the mighty man that he had the earth. In other words, they got everything. You gave them everything.