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)

Comments

[funkybomb.livejournal.com]

If you want to look at people being hateful, take a good, hard, long look in the mirror. All over this person's journal, you have demonized atheists as unrepentant sinners who kill babies for convenience, spread disease with their sinful sexuality, leave children without parental figures, and you continue to un-ironically accuse us of being "hateful".

To paraphrase your own holy book: "Physician, heal thyself."