Your doctor tells you its cancer, or a heart defect requiring major surgery. You have a car accident where injuries occur. You fall and break bones, and you ask, “Why? What did I do to deserve this?” In the Book of Job, Job himself is asking similar questions. He was a righteous man before God; he had committed no sins deserving the severe pains and afflictions attacking him, pains and afflictions so severe that he wished he were dead. Friends came to comfort him but also questioned why he was so afflicted. Obviously God was punishing him for some past sins. He ...