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Job’s response to adversity is a testimony of trust in God’s faithfulness, providence, and care. Regardless of the situation they find themselves in, readers can trust in the fact that God already knows what will happen. He will be with them along the way. As difficult as a Christian’s path may be, God intends for them to walk in greater understanding and trust. This commentary encourages this to...

Elihu actually suggests to Job that God might have been protecting him from greater sin by sending affliction—which, by the way, was the testimony of the Apostle Paul: Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! (2 Corinthians 12:7). Suffering kept Paul spiritually minded. Elihu suggests this possibility to Job, which would have
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