36:13. The godless in heart harbour resentment;even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help. - P186
The book of Job, instead, brings us face to face with the living God, and invites us to live in his light with all our logical gaps, untidy edges and struggling faith. - P155
The divine wisdom, as we shall see, comes by way of the storm and the whirlwind. In a phrase from a poem by Professor Frances Young, ‘wisdom‘ takes onanother aspect. Wisdom‘ is the ‘wild order of things‘.
The poem is called ‘Sophie‘s call‘ (echoing deliberately the Greekword for wisdom, sophia). - P129
Elihu’s God is too tidy and too small. - P130
Job thought he had fallen through a gap in the Creator‘s management of the world. But now he is reassured. The Creator is holding all things by the word of his power;nothing - not even the silly ostrich or the terrible monsters outside his gracious hand. So Job can rest secure, and live with his questions being unanswered. In God, power, justice and wisdom are all aspects of one and the same divine character,
so Job can let the matter rest in faith within the mystery of God. Faith, we said, is what God gives us to help us live with uncertainties. - P156
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