Job 13: The Right to Defense
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https://doi.org/10.47182/rb.73.n-2011199Keywords:
Job, Human Suffering, Divine Justice, Right, Job 13Abstract
In the study of the book of Job, extensive attention has been given to theological and spiritual problems, such as the suffering of the righteous; the relationship between physical evil and ethical guilt; Job's guilt; the modest theology of God's defense by Job's friends or the presence or absence of a final conversion of Job. Perhaps less attention has been given to the problem that lies at the root of all those mentioned, namely the presence or absence of a legitimate procedure in which Job could have been found guilty or innocent, and convicted or released. This study concentrates on a crucial text of the book, which places us at the centre of the same old problem: the human being has to bear sufferings whose reason s/he does not understand and with norms of whose legitimacy s/he is not convinced.
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