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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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Is there a God, and why does he allow suffering?,
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This review is from: The Message: Job: Led by Suffering to the Heart of God (Hardcover)
I am buying more copies as gifts for others! This book is a great resource for explaining how God and human suffering can coexist --- something everyone wonders about. God uses suffering to draw us to him, to focus on him when life doesn't make sense. That's when he gets our attention, as the book of Job illustrates.
The translation is extremely good at expressing the original Hebrew in today's colloquialisms.
Here's an example that stuck with me (which I am writing from memory as I have already given my copy to a friend!):
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one! (Job 14-NIV)
Peterson translates it something like:
How can I pull myself up by my bootstraps when I don't even have any boots?
I think you get the gist...Peterson brings the text alive! I highly recommend this book
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Easier to understand a difficult book,
By Janlynn (Sussex, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Message: Job: Led by Suffering to the Heart of God (Hardcover)
I have always had trouble reading through the Book of Job in the Bible. Not only was it long, but also boring as I could never quite understand the message it was trying to convey. The Message version of the Bible book of Job makes the storyline much easier to understand.
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The Message: Job: Led by Suffering to the Heart of God by Eugene H. Peterson (Hardcover - Mar. 1996)
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