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Job 21:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Job 21:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Job’s Sixth Response[a]
Chapter 21
The Very Thought of My Plight Fills Me with Horror.[b] 1 Job then answered with these words:
2 “Listen carefully to my words;
at the very least, grant me this consolation.
3 Bear with me while I speak;
once I have finished, you may jeer.
Footnotes
- Job 21:1 Looking beyond his own experience, Job thinks of the human condition as a whole. He is aware of how serious his claim is: he raises the problem of evil, and it is the very justice of God that seems to be in the wrong.
- Job 21:1 This new consciousness of the problem of evil overwhelms the author himself.
