As I read through Job, I’m surprised to identify so much with Job’s friends. Not that I would say the same things they do, but that I have a tendency — out of a Petrine “not knowing what else to say” I’m sure — to theologize and give sermonettes about God’s workings rather than identifying with someone’s suffering and leading them to the Redeemer (not Tim Keller’s church!). It’s not so much that Job’s friends have awful theology — sometimes it is — but that they were more wrapped up in their theology than in comforting their brother.
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