Job is saying he doesn’t think morality matters because God isn’t moral either. Whether you’re good or bad, there is no equation. That’s a point many people get to. Maybe they won’t say it up in their heads, but they feel it down in the gut. And, of course, they are right. Life is not just. We’re really not doing our young a favor if we paint for them a world in which fairness can be demanded or even expected. The poor and the outcasts seem to know this much earlier. That’s their head start on the Gospel: Life itself has given them an understanding and acceptance of the essentially tragic
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