HONR 1101 Lecture : Job_1-25.docx
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I found that the explanations for suffering of the innocents that are offered in job. 1-25 were somewhat hard for me to find and decipher. To begin, there are a couple references to the possibility of the justification that the innocent suffer because god is malicious and immoral. He complains that god is not always merciful or predictable and that he oftentimes might just punish him for no reason or reasons that are unclear. Job"s third reply, he further elaborates on the cruelty of god: he uncovers deep things from the darkness, brings the gloom into the light. He makes nations great and destroys them, spreads people abroad and abandons them (12:22-23). There are also suggestions that the world is amoral and ruled by nobody or that. He adds that it seems as though humans live in the earthly present, without any involvement from god, and only focus on their own emotions and earthly praise or punishment.
