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** God works InMysteriousWays, so humility is better than trying to explain everything.
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** God works InMysteriousWays, InMysteriousWays with an OmniscientMoralityLicense, so humility is a better response from us mere mortals than trying to explain everything.
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** God works InMysteriousWays, so humility is better than trying to explain everything.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Job's friends seem to categorize the world into sinful people to whom bad things happen, vs. righteous people who are rewarded for their piety. The possibility of tragic things occurring to a righteous person does not sit well with them.
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* ZenSurvivor
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ZenSurvivor: Job suffers unimaginable tragedy, but comes out the wiser.
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** We may not understand why bad things happen to good people, but that doesn't mean it's a punishment for their sins.
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How could they be in the book if undiscovered? Also, telecommunications via lightning is a bit of a stretch
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** Several verses also mention the concept of hydrologic cycles, telecommunications using lightning and deep sea exploration before they were discovered.
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God chews Job out for putting himself on par with God, not because he cursed his birth. Otherwise, He wouldn't have restored Job for staying faithful or gotten angry at Job's friends for not supporting him properly either.
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* TheBadGuyWins: The book is controversial for many reasons, namely, Job does not curse God directly like Satan bet he would, [[DespairSpeech but by cursing his birth]], he by proxy implicitly cursed the creator ''who gave him life'', meaning Satan '''won the bet'''. God now has to give TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the ruined man.
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* AnAesop: It's easy to have faith in God when times are easy. But having faith in God when times are tough? That's when true faith is shown.
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* AnAesop: AnAesop:
** It's easy to have faith in God when times are easy. But having faith in God when times are tough? That's when true faith isshown.shown.
** Faith can carry you through difficult times, and, in the end, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
** It's easy to have faith in God when times are easy. But having faith in God when times are tough? That's when true faith is
** Faith can carry you through difficult times, and, in the end, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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* AnAesop: It's easy to have faith in God when times are easy. But having faith in God when times are tough? That's when true faith is shown.
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The UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning 1958 play ''Theatre/{{JB}}'' is the book of Job with a SettingUpdate to the modern day.
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The UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning 1958 play ''Theatre/{{JB}}'' is the book of Job with a SettingUpdate to the modern day. Besides that, there’s enough stories and characters that reference the book of Job that it counts as AdaptationOverdosed.
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* BadGuyWins: The book is controversial for many reasons, namely, Job does not curse God directly like Satan bet he would, [[DespairSpeech but by cursing his birth]], he by proxy implicitly cursed the creator ''who gave him life'', meaning Satan '''won the bet'''. God now has to give TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the ruined man.
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* BadGuyWins: TheBadGuyWins: The book is controversial for many reasons, namely, Job does not curse God directly like Satan bet he would, [[DespairSpeech but by cursing his birth]], he by proxy implicitly cursed the creator ''who gave him life'', meaning Satan '''won the bet'''. God now has to give TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the ruined man.
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* BadGuyWins: The book is controversial for many reasons, namely, Job does not curse God directly like Satan bet he would, [[DespairSpeech but by cursing his birth]], he by proxy implicitly cursed the creator ''who gave him life'', meaning Satan '''won the bet'''. God now has to give TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the ruined man.
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* OmniscientMoralityLicense: God points this out to Job in the end.
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* OmniscientMoralityLicense: God points this out to Job in the end. He doesn't apologize to the wretched man whose life and children he allowed Satan to destroy ''on a bet''.
