Job 21

Job 21 features Job’s response to Zophar’s speech in the prior chapter. In particular, Job questions his friend’s assertion that the prosperity of the wicked is always short-lived. Reading into Zophar’s claims, we can see an underlying assumption that longstanding earthly prosperity directly equates to moral righteousness. And to Job, who just lost his property, children, and his good health, Zophar continues to imply that Job must be masking hidden sin since only the wicked suffer as he does.

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