It's hard to get lower than Job. He's sitting on the ash heap outside the city. The ash heap is where you burn the dung and refuse from the city. The ash heap is where the unclean – the outcasts – are found. He's covered with sores – he oozes, he scratches, his breath is foul…
There's only one way to make it any worse: remember how it used to be? Remember the good ol' days?
As Dante once said, “There is no greater sorrow than to remember in misery happier times.” Or as the ancient Christian philosopher, Boethius, commented, “In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.”
Perhaps you know this all too well. Perhaps you look back to “happier times” – and the sorrow of your present condition only deepens as you remember your past happiness.
Job knows that in the end, God will make all things right. But as Job shows us, sometimes when you are living in the middle of history, it is not at all clear how God is going to make that happen....
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