{"content":[{"text":"dignified resignation of Ch.1 v 21 and Ch.2 v.10 he spends 16 of the next 25 chapters complaining about \n his treatment. \n Is this patience? \n Perhaps not as we understand it but it is perseverance in faith. Job loves and trusts God but cannot \n understand his treatment. He longs for an answer from the God he loves. In this he is more faithful than \n his comforters for whom there are no questions to be answered. In Chapter 19 verses 23-26 Job shows \n his ultimate faith:","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.056818,"width":0.8272,"height":0.126087}},{"text":"O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book! O that with an iron pen and \n with lead they were engraved on a rock for ever! \n For I know that my redeemer lives and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has \n been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.204722,"width":0.832791,"height":0.070607}},{"text":"Job’s words and the deaf ears of his friends bring home the intense loneliness of sorrow. ‘Laugh and the \n world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.’ \n Job speaks constantly of the past- he believes he has no future. He is close to despair but crucially does \n not give up.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.297184,"width":0.8266640000000001,"height":0.07075799999999999}},{"text":"Chapter 28 which seems to stand on its own is a poem about wisdom which reaches a climax in verse 28: \n The fear of the Lord- that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.38976,"width":0.834524,"height":0.03363700000000003}},{"text":"Chapters 29-30 see Job summing up in his defence comparing the life that he had with his present state \n of humiliation and sorrow, and in Chapter 31 refuting his friends’ accusation that he had earned his ill- \n fortune by a sinful life. \n Chapters 32- 37 feature Elihu, a young man who is angry with Job for his self-justification and with the \n three friends for failing to convince him. In essence though Elihu has little new to say.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.445215,"width":0.823789,"height":0.08911599999999997}},{"text":"In Chapters 38-39 The Lord speaks to Job questioning him about creation and nature, question after \n question. In Ch 40 verse 1: The Lord said to Job: \n “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!” \n Then Job answered the Lord, “I am unworthy, how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. I \n spoke once, but I have no answer- twice but I will say no more.”","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.556149,"width":0.800688,"height":0.08924300000000007}},{"text":"God goes on to rebut Job’s claims of injustice by presenting images of the monsters Behemoth and \n Leviathan, representing the supreme forces of evil and challenging Job to bring them to heel. God seems \n to be saying: ‘I wrestle constantly with the forces of evil- don’t tell me how to do my job.’","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.667248,"width":0.832264,"height":0.052121000000000084}},{"text":"It is important to consider the Jewish attitude to the Book of Job. The Jews know more than anyone \n about undeserved suffering:","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.741187,"width":0.793105,"height":0.03363700000000003}},{"text":"David Ariel in What do Jews Believe? (1996) writes (p.105):","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.796641,"width":0.46748500000000004,"height":0.015152000000000054}},{"text":"God’s answer to Job is the classical answer of Judaism to the question of human suffering. God is \n transcendent and his nature is unknowable. We can relate to Job’s anguish and loneliness. God’s silence \n about the fairness or injustice of his fate leaves him in a state of religious despair. Trust in God can never \n be again taken for granted.","bbox":{"left":0.069608,"top":0.833788,"width":0.8275440000000001,"height":0.07060600000000006}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}