Reading the Book of Job stirs up in me much soul-searching, heart struggling thoughts.
Like the 3 friends of Job who can only see the outward doings of Job and accuse him of sin, so too people will always jump to wrong conclusions about others.
The debate in this Book from chapters 3-31 is difficult to follow. Perhaps one needs to know Hebrew to have a better understanding?
Violence! Wickedness! Injustice! Calamities! We see them all!!
When others encounters sufferings and mishaps, we conclude: “They sin so they suffer”. But when we face these suffering, we ask: “Where is God?”
For Job, we went into a deep soul searching and recounts his days before disasters struck him (chapter 29), how he was a blessing to all people. Things changed after his sufferings and people treated him repulsively (Chapter 30).
2 wonderful passages to read in this Book:
Job soul searching moment (Chapter 31) and the search for wisdom (Chapter 28)
And He said to humankind, ‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding’ (Job 28:28, NRSV)
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