I Like Job

Some initial thoughts on Job. (Yay for yet another bullet-point entry!)

• Job asks some pretty hard questions.
  
  
• Job is sick of the easy answers (and he can rattle them all off, too).
  
  
• Job's friends would have made excellent debaters.
  
  
• Job gets more mixed up the more he tries to defend himself to his friends.
  
  
• Job was thinking a bit more clearly and a lot more humbly until his friends started trying to explain things to him.
  
  
• Job becomes an self-righteous idiot after debating with arrogant (if well-intentioned) idiots.
  
  
• I like Job.
  
  
• Job is my new favorite book of the Bible.
  
  
• Job is also one of the best books of the Bible to read during Advent. Sundahl got a few things right, and the deep and thoroughgoing messianic longing in Job is one of them.
  
  
• The middle portion is currently a lot more comprehensible to me than the bookends are.