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7 articles, ordered by date published, newest first.
Job speaks less of his physical suffering and more about his personal confusion about the situation. Job’s physical suffering is truly unfathomable without comprehending his confusion. The fact that Job feels condemned before God is the crux of the matter!
Read →Dying men sometimes pray for death. Mortally ill people who teeter on the brink of death for a prolonged period of time sometimes give into these desires. However, even believers can be driven to this dark place through spiritual illness.
Read →Job claims that if his grievous calamity were to be “thoroughly weighed” in a balance, so as to determine its weight, then “it would be heavier than the sand of the sea” (Job 6:3)!
Read →This spiritual condition of madness and folly is what Solomon called, “a wounded spirit” (Prov. 18:14, Eccl. 2:17) – a seemingly senseless agony where the man feels that he is imploding within, or mortally wounded inside (Jer. 15:18)
Read →The angel went on to say, “they perish for ever without any regarding it” (Job 4:20), which is to say that men perish so frequently, and nearly continuously, there are people dying worldwide “from morning to evening” (Job 4:20).
Read →Somehow, someway, they become delusional in the midst of their physical suffering to think that death would grant them some sense of relief. On the physical side of things, there is some truth to this,
Read →A book written about a controversy is bound to be controversial. A situation that confounded the most godly men of the Early Church will no doubt confuse readers today. Doubtful readers of the Book of Job
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