Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Job 12:13-25
by: Jerry Johnson.
I am glad that I do not have all of the answers to the mysterious questions of life. Job did not either. Zophar had asked him in the previous chapter if it were possible to search the deep things of God. Eliphaz had asserted in chapter five that essentially “good things happen to good people.” Job does not argue with them, but instead asserts God’s sovereign freedom. In war, natural disasters or everyday human suffering none of us are in the position to comprehend fully why God ordains things to happen in a certain way. To some this is distressing; I hope somehow we can find comfort.