Job 42
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October 27, Ordinary 30B (Job 42:1–6, 10–17)
Job passively endures a lot of trauma before he finally speaks directly to God about it. That’s the turning point.
The book of Job is a parody
Sometimes I picture its author looking down at us and shaking his head.
My friends are praying for me. Does God care?
God’s response to Job is cold comfort when you have terminal cancer.
Prayer isn’t our work, it’s God’s
I mostly agree with Jeffrey Weiss about prayer. I think St. Paul would too.
What does Job see?
After enduring Job's calamities, his howling laments, the speeches of his "friends," a hymn to wisdom as an entr'acte, Job's plea of innocence, an awkward interruption by Elihu, and then four chapters of the LORD speaking from the whirlwind, we finally arrive at the 42nd and last chapter of Job.
We discover that no one much agrees what it means.
Ordinary 30B: Job 42:1-6, 10-17
New daughters and sons do not take the place of the lost ones. As a conclusion to the story of Job, this will not do.
Ordinary 30B: Job 42:1-6, 10-17; Hebrews 7:23-28
After slogging through 41 chapters of misery and god-awful suffering, Job’s world is suddenly put right again in just six verses.