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Summary of the Book of Job | Watch an Overview Video

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What this book knows

Job's honest wrestling with God over undeserved suffering is itself the right posture before the divine mystery.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

the author doesn't want us distracted by historical questions but to focus on Job and the questions raised by his experience of suffering
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the whole debate focused on three questions: Is God truly just in character? Does God run the universe on strict justice?
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obedience-and-authority

Job demands that God show up personally to explain himself
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what looks like divine injustice from Job's point of view needs to be seen in an infinitely larger context
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trauma-and-survival

God approves of Job's wrestling—how Job came honestly before God with all his emotion and pain and simply wanted to talk to God himself
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Illuminates

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