said: ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD’. In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong (Job 1:20–22).” Job had been a careful and conscientious student of the upright life. His philosophy and approach to life had served him and his generation well, so he thought. With the onset of the calamity he is cut loose from his philosophical moorings and set adrift on a sea of futility. To
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