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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,...

And not only so, he appears to delight in it. The picture given here is of a being who seems wholly committed to the downfall of righteous and godly people. So the Satan comes into court, where God asks what he has been up to. Then God initiates the drama of the book of Job by drawing attention to Job’s character. ‘Have you considered my servant Job?’ (1:8). (Notice, in passing, this reference to Job as God’s ‘servant’. The significance of this will become clearer later on.) But
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