HUMA 1165 Study Guide - Final Guide: Moral Evil, When Disaster Strikes..., Epicurus

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Book of job by stephen mitchell: themes: faith, justice, human perseverance, god and the existence of evil,y bad things happen to good people. God makes him suffer by killing his 10 children. He lay down with his face in the dust. He said, naked i came from my mother"s womb, and naked i will return there. Lord has taken; may the name of the lord be blessed. He covered job with boils, from his scalp to the soles of his feet. Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself with, and sat down in the dust . Still argues with his wife how god is good. Job curses the day he was born, comparing life and death to light and darkness. He wishes that his birth had been shrouded in darkness and longs to have never been born, feeling that light, or life, only intensifies his misery.