Job responds "If, only. I've been praying. I've been asking God why that I have been punished this way. but I can't seem to find him. He's not anywhere that I've looked."
In the verses omitted in this week's lectionary passage, Job further responds to his friend's attack by asserting, "I've done what God wants. I've never sinned." (10-12).
Job is ready to give up, "I'd just like to vanish."
Yet, even in this, Job says, "Still I’m not annihilated by darkness;
he has hidden deep darkness from me."
Yet, even in this, Job says, "Still I’m not annihilated by darkness;
he has hidden deep darkness from me."
Side note: My daughter-in-law participated in a Kerygma study on Job at her church. Although I am very Methodist and Kerygma is Presbyterian, I was favorably impressed with the Job and the Life of Faith.
The Methodist Series, Disciple Bible Study, offers Under the Tree of Life which focuses on the books of wisdom in the Old Testament and the Johannine literature in the New.
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