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Why do people suffer? What is God’s role in suffering? How can we help those who suffer? The fact of suffering in the world challenges us with its questions. The book of Job is all about human suffering. We meet a man who is afflicted physically and emotionally. We encounter friends who do their best, but make things worse. We are brought face-to-face with intellectual puzzles. Above all this,...

care of Joseph.8 But with Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, ‘Shaddai’ has become a God not of personal grace and security, but of distance, detachment and impersonal almighty power. They had got used to using a name of God which originally spoke of grace in a way that denied grace. How barren theology can become when it loses touch with the gracious heart of God! The personal closeness of the covenant Lord has given way to the distance of God’s majesty and might. But now, in chapter 38 our author wants
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