A Commentary on Job 1-2
By Thomas Liew
Shoes of Jews who perished in the Holocaust (Image source: ushmm.org)
Introduction
What
would you do if you lose everything in life? Family, wealth and blessings
of every kind. We have to admit that such suffering or losses does not make
sense. What about the account of the appalling atrocities undergone by the Jews
during the Holocaust?
As we contemplate the Holocaust in all its
naked evil, can we honestly believe that all those children tortured by the
Nazis were not, in a very real sense, innocent sufferers? Here is one book in
the Bible that talks about the problem of innocent suffering and that is the
book of Job. If God is good, why are things so bad?
