Daily Bible Reading Day 178

Job 7-9; Acts 7:44-60.  Job says "What is man?" during his first rebuttal and this sounds a lot like Psalm 8. Anyway, Job complains bitterly about his situation. Then Bildad weighs in. Bildad seems to understand Job as saying he has not done anything worthy of the trouble he has received. Bildad seems to be saying Job should repent and it will all go away. Job seems to agree with Bildad but still claims that there is nothing for him to repent of.

Stephen comes to the conclusion of his message. God gave Israel the land and then Solomon built the temple and God dwelt in it though no building could hold him. But Israel rejected the prophets and persecuted them. Stephen accuses the current generation of being stiff-necked like Israel has always been. Then the crowd could contain themselves no longer and they took him out of the city and stoned him to death. Interesting that the leaders turned Jesus over to Pilate because they weren't allowed by the Romans to execute those worthy of death but here spontaneously they executed Stephen. Stephen sees Jesus standing at the right hand of God and Stephen speaks to Jesus to receive his spirit.