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Beyond Suffering: Discovering the Message of Job is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the book of Job, a pain-torn man tries to understand the mind of God while his friends offer their human opinions on his suffering. But when the final answer comes, there are no more speeches. Not from them. Rich with personal experience and examples drawn from the lives of great men, Layton Talbert’s exploration of the book of Job deals with the depths of human suffering and the heights of...

others. The Sabeans stole Job’s oxen and donkeys and killed his servants. The Chaldeans stole Job’s camels and killed his servants. Everyone in the story understood that God was responsible for what happened to Job; they just misunderstood why He did it and what it meant. When it was all over, Job’s acquaintances and relatives came to “comfort him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him” (42:11). Don’t let that word evil mislead you. The same word is used to describe rotten fruit as
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