yield it all back to God, even his children, and he added “May the name of the Lord be praised.” Job did not commit the sin of blaming God for his troubles. In his patient submission to the will of God during his deep affliction, Job gives us an Old Testament preview of that person who suffered even more and not for his own sin—our Savior Jesus Christ. As that sinless man was struggling under the burden of the sins of all people and awaiting his deepest humiliation, suffering, and crucifixion, he
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