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The book of Job is the harrowing story of a man whose life changed so dramatically in the course of a few short days. It is about the problem of suffering, and the answer to the problem is not seen in the comments of Job’s friends but in his own response to suffering. The book of Job teaches us how to respond to difficulties in our lives. Job’s acceptance of his loss is a model of piety. When...

The book as a whole offers another way of looking at suffering. Suffering comes to Job in order to justify God’s claim to Satan that men can serve him without thought of what they gain from it. According to Satan, this is impossible and the book sets out to prove that he is wrong. Satan’s aim is to get Job to blaspheme against God: to worship Satan instead of God. ‘The essence of idolatry,’ A. W. Tozer once said, ‘is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of him.’ We all have unworthy
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