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It is Better to Question than Merely Accept Difficult Circumstances

If the Book of Job reaches across two and a half millennia to teach anything to men and women who consider themselves normal, decent human beings, it is this: Human beings are sure to wander in ignorance and to fall into error, and it is better — more righteous in the eyes of God — for them to react by questioning rather than accepting. Confronted with inexplicable injustice, it is better to be irate than resigned. Safire says about Job, “I started my journey into this book with doubt in my faith and have come out with faith in my doubt.”