Job and the Problem of Suffering

The problem of suffering is a topic that is often difficult to approach. The primary focus of the book of Job is the problem of innocent suffering. The suffering of Job raises many issues about the justice of God because Job was a righteous man and his suffering was unprovoked.

The book examines Job’s suffering from the perspective of Job’s friends and from the perspective of Job himself in order to understand the problem of suffering and find timeless teachings that can be applied to the problem of human suffering in our own day.