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Naomi and the friends of Job seem to have based their understanding and expectations of God on the law of Moses, which promised blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience. But actually, what we see again and again, from the beginning to the end of the Bible, is that God repeatedly gives his people what they don’t deserve. It’s called grace.
— Sep 08, 2025 02:11PM
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Naomi’s understanding of the world, her grasp of God’s ways with his people, was that God gives us what we deserve, what we’ve earned through our good or bad behavior. It was the same understanding Job’s friends seemed to have—that in Job’s suffering he was getting what he deserved.
— Sep 08, 2025 02:11PM
