If God is not really here, then we cannot blame Him for the problem of evil.1 And so we reason to ourselves, thinking that man by his free will has made something crooked which God cannot, for various reasons, straighten out. The problem with this idea is that Solomon states it the other way. Man cannot straighten what God has made crooked. Contrary to our modern evangelical apostles of uplift, God has given us “sore travail” (v. 13).
