It is curious! The full Book of Job is seldom shared among us! Yet daily we struggle to make sense of a world in which there is so much suffering, suffering which is seemingly meaningless. This biblical Book offers us rich material to ponder as we listen to Job and his well-intentioned friends debate the question of God's justice. Job cannot find in himself any wrongdoing to commensurate to the tribulations for which he has been singled out. Job ultimately wants to see God in court so that he can be vindicated. How does it turn out?
Resource Person: William L. Holladay, Th,D., Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Andover Newton Theological School, is the author of Jeremiah I and Jeremiah II, of the Hermenica Series (1986, 1989), The Psalms Through Three Thousand Years (fortress, 1995) and Unbound by Time: Isaiah Still Speaks (Cowley Publications, 2002).
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