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Job: Will You Torment a Windblown Leaf? is unavailable, but you can change that!

The poet Alfred Lord Tennyson is reputed to have called the book of Job “the greatest poem of ancient or modern times.” It is, indeed, a poetic masterpiece—one of the most original poems in the history of mankind—and it is also is one of the most dramatic illustrations in the Bible of the interrelationship of God, mankind and Satan. There is much argument as to what is the basic theme of Job....

eye view. In chapters 38 and 39 God invites him to a bird’s eye view, or rather a divine eye view of the universe, responding to his mentality by showing him how utterly narrow and confined is his world view, how insignificant he is as a being. There is no way he can understand even a fragmentary part of God’s activity in the universe. The wild animals, the weather, the constellations, are all observable wonders, but man is incapable of understanding them (much more so in Job’s days). They are equally
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