Job says again, “I am a just and blameless man, yet my friends laugh at me.”
Job is at a loss to explain his circumstances, but he cannot accept the explanation offered by his three “friends”.
Job is certain of this: Although God’s ways are mysterious, and his purposes inscrutable, yet “I call on God and expect an answer.” This that has befallen me is of God, for he is very much at work in the affairs of men, and is in control of everything, even the very breath we breathe. All creation knows this. “Just ask the animals, and they will teach you.”
