S24E1010 - When We Don't Understand

Job 19:25 (CEB)

I know that my redeemer is alive, and afterward, he’ll rise upon the dust.

Job’s friends think they have God figured out.

Job has lost almost everything, and they think they know why. Surely, he must have done something terrible. God rewards good people and punishes bad people, they reason, so if Job is suffering, Job must be guilty.

Job knows they’re wrong. But he doesn’t understand what God is doing either. In fact, much of the book consists of Job demanding an explanation. At least he...