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friends. He said I expected more than this from you. Then in chapter 7,
you are not going to believe this, but he does it again. He lets out a wail
and a lament and an agony that makes chapter 3 look like a song of praise.
In Chapter 3 he is lamenting his birth, his conception and everything else,
but it gets worse in chapter 7. And, those men true to their calling,
misinterpret this cry also. And when Bildad hears this, then he lets out his
explanation. And this is hot. And we will get to that. Chapter 6: 1 - 13,
Job explains his cry. I will encourage you to read it on your own time.
Here’s some key verses from Chapter 6,

Verse 5: “Does the wild donkey bray over his grass, Or does the ox
low over his fodder?”
Verse 12: “Is my strength the strength of stones, Or is my flesh

bronze?
Is it that my help is not within me, And that deliverance is driven
from me?”
Here is what Job is saying. Will you at least give me the same
consideration you give animals? If an animal cries out, if an animal brays,
what do you conclude? He is hungry? He is hurt? If an animal screams,
you know that something is wrong. I scream, and you do not say, “Job
must be hurting”. You say, “Job must have sinned”. He said, “Give me
the same consideration you give animals. Do you know why I cried? I
cried because I hurt. Because, it is painful. I am suffering. Do you know
why I cried loud? I cried loud because I am in great pain!”

Then in verse 12 he says, “Is my strength the strength of stones? Is
my flesh bronze?” When God made me, He did not make me a stone.
When God made me, He did not make me out of brass. He made me flesh
and blood, and I have nerves and nerve endings, and I hurt.
We need to pay attention to this and how we might apply it in our lives.
Someone cries out, and the first thing you say is he is not trusting in the
Lord. He is rebelling against God. Maybe he is just suffering. When God
made us, He did not make us out of brass. He did not make us out of
stone. And men hurt sometime. And that is why Job cried. They did not
understand it. Verse 10,

“But it is still my consolation, and I rejoice in unsparing pain, that I
have not denied the words of the Holy One.”

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