Job, longing for a hearing, wishes he could find God and lay his case before Him, confident that God would listen and that he would come out vindicated, “when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.” But God is nowhere to be found, whichever way he turns, and this hiddenness, more than the suffering itself, terrifies him.
Job study chapter
Job 23
patriarchal eraJob longs to find God and lay his case before Him, sure he would be acquitted.
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