Why should we moan about the “bad turn” events have taken? Why are we no longer in the “good old days?” The answer is that God does not want us to be. He is the Governor of all. Further affliction may be necessary (vv. 10–12). Sometimes the good old days were not really that good. And even when they were, we must not revolt against God’s wisdom in His providence. He is the one who decreed that those days would come to an end.
