1/07/2010
State of the Dead discovery
Job still isn't my favourite book but I am getting more out of it than the last time I read it. In today's reading (Job 14-16) I discovered that the book of Job talks about death as a sleep (Job 14: 10-12). I never realized that before. I still wish that Job had been written more as a story and less as poetic dialogue, petitions, and prayers but I'm doing my best to try to gain something from each reading.
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Well, if it helps, I'd like to share some of the stuff I loved about Job. Job (the book) reminds me of the writing of a struggling adolescent (or simply romantic) writer who is trying to figure out the meaning of life and death and suffering. Unlike most other writers, Job's author actually takes the problem and explores it, painful though it may be. Everyone else brings up the question only to duck as it passes overhead.
ReplyDeleteThe point of "Job" as I see it is not to tell a story, but to figure out why good people suffer, and I think it does a good job with that. I hope you learn to like it, at least enough to get through it.