Category: Job

In the ongoing second round of false accusations, Eliphaz charged Job that his sufferings were the fruit of conceit and arrogance (15:1-35). Job did not

How the book of Job proceeds at this point is remarkable: Rejecting all notions about the eternity of the universe, Job had professed his conviction

We are in the book of Job. This poem in the Bible explores why God allows suffering  even though He is even by definition all-powerful

Previously, Eliphaz claimed to know even by direct inspiration from God that Job’s calamity was self-inflicted by sin. By the same logic, Bildad’s first pitch

As pointed out by the late John Frame, professor of systematic theology and philosophy, we are confronted with evil at two levels ( “The problem of Evil”):

In chapter 3, Job first tells his friends that he wished the day of his birth were blotted out, vv1-6: The poet invokes no less than seven