This chapter opened with a question. What kind of people suffer adversity? We expect bad things to happen to bad people. But that’s not the kind of suffering Job addresses. The Bible’s classic example of suffering inexplicable affliction is Job, one of the best men the world has ever seen. If you don’t measure up to Job’s level of godliness and yet still find yourself suffering inexplicable adversity, part of the message of Job is this: It happens to the best of us, and it happens to better than
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