[July 2006 journal entry]
What could Job do to save his life? The counsel/pressure the ‘scrapheap’ Job receives from his three close friends reinforces the Accuser’s proposition – even to the point of their knowingly counseling/pressuring him to violate his integrity. They press him to trust/hold the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm, to fall prostrate before ‘God’ begging for mercy (e.g., 8:5). Elihu presses him to consider his plight a divinely engineered opportunity for spiritual refinement. The whirlwind ‘God’ humiliates the ‘scrapheap’ Job without even addressing his plight.
What could Job do to save his life? The counsel/pressure the ‘scrapheap’ Job receives from his three close friends reinforces the Accuser’s proposition – even to the point of their knowingly counseling/pressuring him to violate his integrity. They press him to trust/hold the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm, to fall prostrate before ‘God’ begging for mercy (e.g., 8:5). Elihu presses him to consider his plight a divinely engineered opportunity for spiritual refinement. The whirlwind ‘God’ humiliates the ‘scrapheap’ Job without even addressing his plight.
