[July 2006 journal entry]
The ‘scrapheap’ Job ends his first comments to/before his three close friends with references to “the worst of my fears” and “what I’ve dreaded most” (3:25-26). These comments stand in sharp contrast to the prologue’s presentation of Job. The ‘scrapheap’ Job’s critique of conventional ‘wisdom’ has created his dread/fear (i.e., due to now having observed ‘life under the sun’ more radically/indiscriminately than has his three close friends). The ‘religious’ T/O paradigm considers dread/fear to be evidence of faithlessness.
The ‘scrapheap’ Job ends his first comments to/before his three close friends with references to “the worst of my fears” and “what I’ve dreaded most” (3:25-26). These comments stand in sharp contrast to the prologue’s presentation of Job. The ‘scrapheap’ Job’s critique of conventional ‘wisdom’ has created his dread/fear (i.e., due to now having observed ‘life under the sun’ more radically/indiscriminately than has his three close friends). The ‘religious’ T/O paradigm considers dread/fear to be evidence of faithlessness.
