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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