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Continue reading →: With Friends Like Those.
Job’s friends. So sure they know what’s going on. So persistent. So annoying. Oh they start off on the right foot. The friends learn of Job’s troubles, they leave their homes, meet up and go to “console and comfort him” (2:11). They weep, tear their robes and throw dust on…
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Continue reading →: The Impatience of Job
My plan to post daily, clearly didn’t work out. Nevertheless, we plod on. Job, a long, often boring book. An often a misunderstood book. Sometime people talk about the book of Job as if it contains the answer to the problem of evil. If you read the book, it doesn’t.…
