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The phrase "the patience of Job" could not be further from the mark. Job is , for all but 3 of the 42 chapters,exasperated by his comforters, reduced to abject misery by his afflictions, and disillusioned and furious with God. "The defiance of Job" would have been a far more apposite figure of speech to have passed into the language. Most people don't have god talking to them either, unless you went crazy which it seems Job had by the end of the story.
The book of job is just a story, but its lessons are easily misread. If God is omnipotent, we cannot blame anything on the Devil, and if God is no help, we have to do his work for Him. We construe his absence either as non-existence , hubris, apathy or an admission of guilt. We miss Him, we would dearly like to see Him going to and fro in the Earth and walking up and down in it , but we can admire tyranny no longer , and we desire justice more than we are awed by vainglorious assertions of magnificence.
2007-08-13
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