Job didn''t know what hit him. For no earthly reason, his life fell from the heights of good fortune, renown, respect and contentment to abject
misery and pain. He lost his livelihood, his marrige and family and his health in a storm of multiple misfortunes that
left him shipwrecked on the shores of despair. All he could ask in his anguish was "Why?" Job''s well-respected peers didn''t help because they had no real answers. They assailed him with a barrage of formula
explanations and remedies that simply intensified his distress and left him no closer to a release from his pain. In his loneliness and hardship Job kept his focus on the fact that he had done nothing to deserve the heartbreak and humiliation he had so unexpectedly fallen into. He knew his business was with his God and it was to his God that Job directed the cry of his heart, through the means of his dialogue with his inept comforters. It didn''t make sense. There didn''t appear to be any logic to what had befallen him, no chain of moral cause and effect to pinpoint the souce of his misery in anything he himself had done or failed to do. His erstwhile friends and false comforters persisted in the vain attempts to elicit an irrelevant confession of some sort of guilt, as if that made things better. In the end, Job''s
answer came from the God he worshipped and it wasn''t a logical answer. God made no apologies for the misfortune Job had lived through. God gave no explanations and made no promises. He simply revealed Himself to his servant. Job''s direct, personal encounter with his God left him speechless, in contrast to his eloquent expression of
pain and grief in the preceding dialogues. He was then challenged by God to intercede for the men who had so excruciatingly villified him. And that was enough. Throughout his fiery trial, Job had maintained his integrity and was, in the end, vindicated. At the
end we see our hero better off in every way than he was before disaster struck and he died happy and content, an old man full of years and rich with experience, wiser than at the beginning and much comforted by the faithfulnes of his God
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