Job's friends have been trying to explain how the universe fits together. They came to comfort him in his affliction. But how do you comfort someone who has lost everything?
One approach is to help your friend see how all that has happened to him fits into the pattern of the universe. I think that it is safe to say that Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar were all long-time friends of Job's. They had engaged in similar conversations for years. And until now, Job would have agreed with their general approach to wisdom. Since God is just, therefore the wicked perish and the righteous prosper.
Eight times the friends have tried to persuade Job to hold fast to traditional wisdom theology. And eight times Job has replied – steadily moving further and further away from their position – but closer and closer to the truth.
Now, in his final reply, Job provides his own account of how the universe fits together...
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