Ouch! We all have bad days from time to time, but most of us won’t even come close to what Job was experiencing when he uttered those painful words. In case you’re not familiar with his story, Job was ...

The Book of Job is the closest thing in Hebrew to a Greek tragedy. A perfectly innocent man—one “who feared God and turned away from evil”—is visited by a series of calamities. He loses his ...

(RNS) For the couple of months since I went public about my brain cancer, I’ve had many people of many faiths send me messages that they were praying for me. Some said they were hoping to nudge the ...

The Book of Job, and the trials of Job. Hard and endless. We’ll ask what the hard old Bible story has to say now. An image from William Blake's engravings illustrating the biblical Book of Job. Job, a ...

This is a slightly adapted version of a sermon presented earlier this month at the Festival of Preaching. “Then Job answered the Lord: ‘I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours ...

"Do you really want to read the entire book of Job?" my pastor asked me, horrified. I'd asked him to help me read this ancient Biblical book, to understand why it spoke to people who suffer greatly. I ...

Presenter: Leong Seow, professor of Old Testament language and literature, Princeton Theological Seminary. In the history of Christian interpretation, Job has always been held up as an example of ...

The Book of Job is commonly — and mistakenly — seen as a story of the “patience of Job.” And sometimes people have trouble locating its place in the Bible. Asked by reporters last January to name his ...