Who that is innocent has ever perished?

Susan Haynes | Job 15:1-26 

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

‘Would a wise person answer with empty notions
  or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
Would they argue with useless words,
  with speeches that have no value?
But you even undermine piety
  and hinder devotion to God.
Your sin prompts your mouth;
  you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;
  your own lips testify against you.’

A debate is in progress, and it's not going well. For reasons completely unknown to him, Job is being subjected to terrible suffering. His three friends have a simple answer: it is because he has sinned, and it must have been something really bad. Yet there are aspects of our broken world that they never even considered. As Susan explains, their judgemental worldview persists into the present day, and can add to people's suffering just as it did to that of Job.

The recording begins with the reading from Simon Jones. In addition to this passage, the sermon is based on the whole of chapters 4 to 27. Also, earlier in the service, the whole congregation read Psalm 32 together.