Quotes From The Book Of Job

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Job understands/presents the problem of human knowledge about God as humans are incapable of actually understanding God in his full omniscience. Throughout the book of Job, the man Job continually asks God to meet with him in trial-esque setting. Job declares God unjust in His treatment towards him, and he wants to know why God has decided to punish him. In Job’s eyes he has done nothing to deserve this punishment. Eventually, God grants Job this “trial,” and the following quote is an excerpt from said encounter with God. ‘“Hear, pray, and I will speak. Let me ask you, that you may inform me.’ By the ear’s rumor I heard of You, and now my eye has seen You. Therefore do I recant, And I repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:4-6). In the first third

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