Book Of Job Divine Law and Fairness
One of the most beautiful books in the entire Bible and a favorite of existentialists the world over, even those who do not believe strongly in the supernatural. For the Book of Job is just about the one most puzzling question that anyone who has ever lived is bound to have wondered: Why is life unfair?
Job, according to the parable, was a holy servant of God who was perfect in his obedience of divine laws. Yet one day he starts experiencing a series of increasingly catastrophic events, from the loss of his property to the loss of his family to the loss of his health. He is puzzled, for in a just world with an all-powerful all-loving God who is both just and merciful, none of it makes any sense at all. And so his friends and neighbours try and console him, till they too can only imagine that Job must have done some terrible evil, to which he is not admitting, for which he is being so cynically punished.
Ultimately in his frustration Job can stand it no longer and instead of simply trusting in God cries out to God, virtually accusing Him of bad faith. Job is at his wits’ end and virtually at the end of his faith, it might appear, when God finally answers not Job’s questions over why God has permitted all this anguish, but answers rhetorically with challenge after challenge along the lines of where-were-you-when-I-created-the-world, fundamentally saying, Who are you to judge me? The Book of Job
In this story we will see the futility of inquiring after life’s fundamental unfairness. For what appears unfair to us is just a part of a larger natural process that just happens to inconvenience us, oftentimes seriously, even fatally. But it is not private and perhaps that’s the most bitter moral of all, that such things occur without any reference at all to our individual selves, which is to say, our egos.
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Posted by Carlos Sagastume on January 7, 2011. Filed under HUD Homes.
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