The first part of the Book of Job is a series of arguments about God. Going through a great difficulty can make one question God’s justice, God’s fairness. As we might say it today, why do bad things happen to good people. The end of the book God speaks out of the whirlwind to Job. Basically, God’s answer is that I’m smarter than you are and I know what I’m doing. God chides Job to look beyond his narrow little world and see the big picture of creation and history to get a hint of the plan of God. Dr. King had something of the same idea when he said: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
