Job Chapter 5 - Call Now! Will Anyone Answer You? - 11-05-2025 Updated Transcript

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Welcome to the InAllWisdom Podcast,
A daily podcast dedicated to wisdom for life.
I am Jim Donnelly, your host.

Today’s podcast is from Job chapter 5

Call Now! Will Anyone Answer You?

 is the title. 

Stay tuned for this episode about wisdom for life.
 
I have completed a commentary on
The book of Ecclesiastes, all 222 verses.
My book title is:
Ecclesiastes Amplified: A Collection of Wise Words 
We have set the publication date for 2026.
 
In the meantime, I am working on 
the book of Job, 
all forty-two chapters, all 1070 verses.

My book title prompts 
a different approach to understanding
the book of Job: 

My book title is: 
Job Is A True Story–Well Written Well Spoken

Subtitled: A True Story About Our Mighty God - Who Has Chosen Not to Distance Himself From Human Suffering, But To Be Part Of It. 
 
Job is forty-two chapters long. A daily podcast will allow me to read through the entire book of Job every six weeks. 

I started this method of reading and commenting five days ago, on November 1, 2025.  

Each daily podcast will start with a reading from a chapter in the book of Job. 

I am taking this trek through Job 

for you and with you. 

Because most people on planet Earth have never heard the true story of Job. 

Reading a chapter a day will help them. 

It will also help many of you 

who know the book of Job 

but have never read it all. 


When you are reading along in the book of Job; 

it is often very hard to figure out who is speaking. 

And who is the target of the conversation. 

It is still harder sometimes to understand what they said.


Last. 

For each month of this podcast, I will choose a different version of the English Bible from which to read. 

This method will help all of us 

to better understand 

what has been written for us. 

Today’s podcast title is:
Call Now! Will Anyone Answer You?
 
Allow me first to read Job chapter 5. 
It is twenty-seven verses long. 

The Book of Job, Chapter 5. 

Today I am reading from The New Jerusalem Bible. 

The Book of Job Chapter Five

Make your appeal then. Will you find an answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn? 2 Resentment kills the senseless, and anger brings death to the fool. 3 I have seen the senseless taking root, when a curse fell suddenly on his house. 4 His children are deprived of prop and stay, ruined at the gate, and no one to defend them; 5 their harvest goes to feed the hungry, God snatches it from their mouths, and covetous people thirst for their possessions. 6 No, misery does not grow out of the soil, nor sorrow spring from the ground. 7 It is people who breed trouble for themselves as surely as eagles fly to the height. 8 If I were you, I should appeal to God and lay my case before him. 9 His works are great, past all reckoning, marvels beyond all counting. 10 He sends down rain to the earth, pours down water on the fields. 11 If his will is to raise up the downcast, or exalt the afflicted to the heights of prosperity, 12 he frustrates the plans of the artful so that they cannot succeed in their intrigues. 13 He traps the crafty in the snare of their own trickery, throws the plans of the cunning into disarray. 14 In daylight they come up against darkness, and grope their way as if noon were night. 15 He rescues the bankrupt from their jaws, and the needy from the grasp of the mighty. 16 Hope springs afresh for the weak, and wickedness must shut its mouth. 17 Blessed are those whom God corrects! Do not then scorn the lesson of Shaddai!   18 For he who wounds is he who soothes the sore, and the hand that hurts is the hand that heals. 19 Six times he will deliver you from sorrow, and the seventh time, evil will not touch you. 20 In time of famine, he will save you from death, and in wartime from the stroke of the sword. 21 You will be safe from the lash of the tongue, unafraid at the approach of the despoiler. 22 You will laugh at drought and frost, and have no fear of the beasts of the earth. 23 You will have a pact with the stones of the field, and live in amity with wild beasts. 24 You will know that your tent is secure, and your sheepfold unharmed when you inspect it. 25 You will see your descendants multiply, your offspring grow like the grass in the fields. 26 At a ripe age you will go to the grave, like a wheatsheaf stacked in due season. 27 All this we have observed and it is so! Heed it, you will be the wiser for it!” 
The New Jerusalem Bible  (Job 5:1–27). (1985). Doubleday.
 
 
 Again, today’s podcast is from Job chapter five verse one. Titled: 

Call Now! Will Anyone Answer You?  

“Call Now! Is a command, by Eliphaz. Totally out of place, since his mission is to console and comfort his friend Job.
The words “Will anyone answer you?” form a bronze ceiling against Job’s words of prayer toward God. The command of Eliphaz, and his questions; were harsh at best, malicious at worst. I think it is the worst thing Eliphaz could have said to his friend. It was an unnecessary admonishment, way off target.
The command: “Call now! And the negative question: Will anyone answer you?” are stolen words. These stolen words were intended to discourage, to cause doubt, to dissuade, to tear down and not build up Job’s spirit. Eliphaz has already revealed the source of these stolen words: “Now a word was brought to me stealthily, and my ear received a whisper of it.” (Job 4:12, NASB).  
This setting that surrounds and informs the words of Eliphaz is described further as beginning with “whispers” of questions and statements by a “spirit form, that Eliphaz could see and hear; but not discern” (see Job 4:15-16). 
Here are the first few whispers of stolen words, which were then twisted and corrupted, breathed forth with seething, and hidden hatred. (I provide a literal translation):
“Will The man be righteous before God? If the valiant will be pure before his Maker?” Behold, He puts no trust in His servant. And against His angels He puts error.” (see Job 4:17-18). 
Understand that if Job had to go through this barrage of statements and questions by friends which did not edify him at all. Rather, it seems that he would have experienced: self-doubt; hopelessness when he lifted his soul unto God; discouraged to press on; perhaps darkness was brought into his life.
So, when this seems to be your lot in life, for a season, long or short. Don’t give up! Pray “Our Father who art in heaven … give us this day our daily portion of bread, not just to eat but to survive in your kingdom spiritually. Pray for food for your soul from Heaven above. Then wait for it to fall like manna from your Heavenly Father, who cares for you; and has not distanced Himself from your suffering here on Earth.

I would like to end here today. Because we are just getting started in the book of Job. And I have not yet posted the Podcasts for Job chapter three. Chapter three turns the book in an unanticipated direction.
 
 
We have come to the end of today’s InAllWisdom Podcast. A daily podcast dedicated to wisdom for life.

Thank you for listening!

Please join me again for another interesting episode of Wisdom for Life.

Until he comes on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory,

may

       “Yahweh bless you, and keep you;

        Yahweh make His face shine on you,

       And be gracious to you;

       Yahweh lift up His face on you,

       And give you peace.’” 

(The Book of Numbers 6:24–27, LSB).