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Job (n.) lost ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠all, but not at a single blow: the Lord took, and the Lord took, and the Lord took — and gave him a foolish wife into the bargain.

Job (n.) walks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠beside the human race like a guarantee: not that the terror will not come, but that it has been endured, and endured to the honour of God.

A Job (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the private thinker who had the world at his feet and withdrew — he does not posture from a pulpit but sits in the ashes scraping himself with potsherds.

A Job (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠approachable as no other Old Testament figure because everything about him is so human — he lies on the border of poetry.

Job (n.) holds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠his secret in this: despite everything, he is in the right — and his endurance is his warrant.

A Job (n.) matters ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not for 'the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away' — he said it once and never repeated it — but because the battles at the frontier of faith are fought out in him.