From the Pulpit...

We extend our understanding of what God is trying to teach us in the book of Job. Job refuses to agree to the friends' premise that he is wicked, and thus suffers the way he did. Rather, he acknowledges that the wicked will pay the price--eventually--but his experience that they sometimes prosper has to be taken into account. Still, he feels cheated of justice. Connecting this to the prior chapter (especially the last verse), we begin to see an answer to the problems of evil and suffering. That answer is this--that we cannot find out an answer, because God is so vastly beyond us and His administration of things is incomprehensible in the final analysis.