Many who go diligently to church, who read the Bible, sing hymns, are still terribly lost in hatreds and fears. They have answers but they have not struggled with the questions. And what is the question? Or questions? Job’s questions might well be our own: Is God for us or against us? Is God loving? Is it an indifferent universe? A benevolent universe? Or a toxic and dangerous one? When we struggle with these questions, we share Job’s struggle — and perhaps the inner struggle of everyman and everywoman. The one answer that seems to be clear in this book is that our distance from God is somehow
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