Between our Steps: Job's Answer

There is no explanation as to why bad things happen to good people. How can we give a healthier context to questions we cannot answer?

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“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth…On what were its bases sunk or who laid the cornerstone …” These words are attributed to God in the book of Job in the Hebrew scripture. 

Job had suffered tremendous losses—he lost all his herds to raiders and accidents; his children all died in a…