[…] Job’s “Comforters”. Job’s friends arrive and seek to help him by explaining the reason for his suffering. As they do, and get it hopelessly wrong, Job slips further into despair. This provides much of the content of the book and seeks to show us that simplistic theodicies always fail. […]
[…] Job’s “Comforters”. Job’s friends arrive and seek to help him by explaining the reason for his suffering. As they do, and get it hopelessly wrong, Job slips further into despair. This provides much of the content of the book and seeks to show us that simplistic theodicies always fail. […]