One of my favorite things about the book of Job is how it lambasts the idea that good people don't get hurt.
Almost anywhere I hear Christians talking, I hear about how being a good Christian means you get a good Christian life. Preachers and other Christians use the Bible like a vending machine - you put in righteousness, piety, obedience, patience, whatever, and you get good stuff. The more you put in, the more you get out. Like God is your checkout person at the grocery store.
Eliphaz says the same kind of thing, beginning in Chapter 4:
"Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?
Where were the upright ever destroyed?"
And Eliphaz doesn't exactly get the blessing of God by the end of the book.
We have a whole book in the Bible dedicated to weeding out this idea that, if we're good enough, God will ignore us when he's passing out tragedy. It was written long before Jesus was born. And yet so many people still pretend that it doesn't exist, and continue to twist the idea of love and obedience to God into a telemarketer's attempt at physical comforts.
PS: I commented on Mary Kate's post.
Another part that supports your argument is when Job asks his wife if they should accept the good and not the bad. Job understood that whatever God gave him it was for a reason; Job just wanted to know why.
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