Now Job vehemently rebuts his friends' theory that all sin is punished in this life, because he points out that some "wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power". He points out that sometimes the wicked's children flourish as do their herds of cattle. "They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace". Such wicked people, Job says, reject God and have no desire to know him. Job struggles with the mystery of suffering when on the other hand sometimes the wicked are snuffed out like a lamp or blown away like straw in the wind. Job acknowledges God's sovereignty judging even the highest. He struggles to understand why some die well nourished whilst others die in bitterness of soul never having enjoyed anything good. The fact is, Job points out, that all end up buried side by side in the dust and eaten by the same worms. So Job says to his friends that their simplistic theories applied to him are nonsense and full of falsehood.
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