Monthly Archives: November 2020

Finished Job again last night in my three-year plan through the Old Testament.

It is one of my favorite OT books although it raises as many questions as it answers. It is often pointed to as the Bible’s answer to the Problem of Evil but I think Habakkuk is a little more explicit about that. The answer to the POE in Job is basically, “The answer is above your head because you are finite and I, God, am not. You try running the universe for a day!”

Of the minutiae in the book, I have always thought it interesting that when Job was restored he… Continue reading