Job 11-13

[wolfpurplemoon]

Job's friend tries to convince him not to throw out his previously deep faith, but Job is still trying to use reason to understand what has been done to him.

Job says that God is continually giving with one hand and taking with the other, and God's all powerful nature means that a man has no hope against him.

He calls his friends liars for their apologist position, and says that he himself is not a hypocrite so he is in a better position than his hypocritical friends before God.

Am I getting the idea of Job now?

As an aside, the way God has behaved is very similar to how you play Sims when you want to torture your characters for no reason. Putting them in a room with no doors is quite amusing (12:14 he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening) & you can quite easily drive them into deep depression if you're having a sadistic moment. But these are computer generated characters not sentient beings. (It was my brother who made this comparison when I was telling him about what God does to Job)

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[wolfpurplemoon]

I really don't understand why an all powerful creator would make the entire universe which is almost entirely hostile to life, create a planet on which life can exist, then create a species that is just one in the many thousands of species on that planet and then bother to test the faith of a few of those inconsequential monkeys. Humans are really not that important in the grand scheme of things.

But anyway, trust you to jump on that bit of my post...