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Job chapter 7, verses 2 and 3,

like a slave who longs for the shadow,

and like a hired hand who looks for his wages.

So I am allotted months of emptiness,

and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

The whole picture here as Job is talking to his friends is him describing suffering

like the work of a servant or hired hand who's doing all this work and getting nothing for it. It's like his suffering is totally

futile. It's leading nowhere. There's no reward. There's no hope. It's just discouraging work.

And that's the end of the story. And, oh, that's how

suffering can often feel. Isn't it? Like, what's the point of this? Why? I think about

even the journey our family's been walking through,

just waiting for a son that we can't go to overseas.

And it just doesn't make sense.

Why?

Why?

Why?

What's the point of this? And that's just one example there's so many examples and so many more

severe examples that you have walked or are walking through and that's where joe this book is so

helpful it brings things to the surface that are so real like the Bible is not just a book that glosses over,

the hard realities of life in a sinful world.

And it presents those realities.

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