Bible Question: How long did Job's suffering last? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Tfall... Dr. Bill Long responded to that question with, "The brief answer is that we don't know. From the perspective of the flow of the Book of Job, we know that it must have taken the friends several weeks to arrange their affairs and take the trip to be with Job. Then, there is one reference in 7:3 to Job's 'months' of misery. But this is in a poetic section, and we don't know if we are to suppose that 'months' had transpired between the disasters of ch. 1 and the poetic utterances of ch. 7. The interesting question to me is where Job's insight came from and how he developed it so quickly and with such conviction if the imagined time of suffering is very short. So, I think of several months as the period of his suffering." In Him, Doc |
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