{"id":129,"date":"2010-09-23T23:06:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T03:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=129"},"modified":"2010-09-24T07:20:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T11:20:34","slug":"painfully-honest-job-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Painfully honest (Job 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a painfully honest way, Job puts into words his deepest feelings. &#8220;What recourse is there with God? If He is right in punishing me, what have I done? How can my punishment be just?  And if He is wrong, what difference does it make; is He not all powerful?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wounds me without cause&#8221;, Job exclaims. &#8220;The blameless and the wicked are alike to him.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But are they? Would Noah have agreed with that? Is that the lesson of the great flood? <\/p>\n<p>Surely the God of day and night, springtime and harvest, flood waters and gentle rain does <em>nothing <\/em> without cause. Surely He makes a distinction between the blameless and the wicked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a painfully honest way, Job puts into words his deepest feelings. &#8220;What recourse is there with God? If He is right in punishing me, what have I done? How can my punishment be just? And if He is wrong, what difference does it make; is He not all powerful?&#8221; &#8220;He wounds me without cause&#8221;, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Painfully honest (Job 9)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}