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Romans 8:31-39
More Than Conquerors


31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, [b]39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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fun4us2b · M
From my limited knowledge - Book of Job - after God takes everything from Job, and he's like: Is that all you got? Bring it!

From Wiki - God tells Eliphaz that he and the two other friends "have not spoken of me what is right as my servant Job has done". The three (Elihu, the critic of Job and his friends, is not mentioned here) are told to make a burnt offering with Job as their intercessor, "for only to him will I show favour". Job is restored to health, riches and family, and lives to see his children to the fourth generation.
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fun4us2b · M
@Stereoguy What I understood is that Job couldn't understand why all that bad luck befell him while he was so loyal to God...So, in a sense, he's blaming God for his bad fortune, as if it was God causing it...
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fun4us2b · M
@Pikachu I agree, it's not an uplifting story. I like it because it discusses life's difficulties and human resilience. Thanks for your words...
@fun4us2b

I guess that's not the takeaway i get from the book of Job but thanks for hearing me out.👍
@Pikachu According to the Talmud, the book of Job is an allegory. I've always found it difficult to believe someone sat there and wrote down verbatim that conversation between Job and his three friends - Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar,
@RocktheHouse

One of the oldest books too, if i'm not mistaken.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@RocktheHouse
According to the Talmud, the book of Job is an allegory. I've always found it difficult to believe someone sat there and wrote down verbatim that conversation between Job and his three friends - Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar,

Don't you know that the most popular job in ancient times was to be a personal stenographer to the biblical characters? How else would we know what they said when it was just two people yakking in the desert?