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Why do bad things happen to good people? Can suffering serve any good purpose? Why me? These are real questions that many wrestle with today—and that Job wrestled with thousands of years ago. The book of Job is a historical biography of Job, “a blameless and upright man,” one justified by faith in the sight of God. This commentary traces his spiritual journey through tragic bereavement and...

This Old Testament book has been popular with great preachers. The magisterial Reformer John Calvin preached 156 sermons from the Book of Job, and the famous Charles H. Spurgeon some 88 sermons. Very large commentaries have been written on Job. One manuscript containing nearly three hundred pages covers only Job 29–31, and a two-volume commentary will, when complete, contain nearly two million words.1 The questions discussed by Job and his friends are similar to the questions many people wrestle
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