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The book of Job can scandalize us with its portrait of suffering. In the prologue of Job: The Sovereignty of God and the Suffering of Man, Cyril J. Barber writes, “The book of Job deals with the weighty issues of God’s sovereignty, Satan’s malevolent opposition, and the problems that accompany unexplained human suffering.” In this book—designed for lay people trying to come to grips with this...

serenity of his existence his attitude led him to conclude that he was incapable of handling adversity (4:1–6). Eliphaz then attempted to explain why Job was suffering. In doing so he offered muted praise for Job’s reverential awe of God, but implied that if Job was really a person of integrity he would readily recall that only the unrighteous suffer. Then to bolster his argument he appealed to Job’s experience. He continued: “According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and those who sow trouble,
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