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Everything Happens For A Reason In The Book Of Job

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This idea that “everything happens for a reason” comes into play in The Book of Job. In Job’s case, this idea of “everything happens for a reason” isn’t as obvious. We must interpret Job’s feelings and experiences to explain why he is having horrible things happen to him. Throughout most of the novel, Job questions why horrible things are happening to him. He experiences people dying around him as well as animals dying. For example, on page sixty five, Job discusses his feelings of experiencing disaster: “my breath absorbs their venom terror of the god invests me” (Scheindlin, 65, 6.1). Job’s feeling here is that he is under a curse and feels that someone of higher authority is controlling his life. “Venom terror of the god invests me” foreshadows

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