Yo probably think that I never do any work because yesterday I listened to the whole of the book of Job being read on the computer. (Honestly, I was working as well on the accounts) The version I have been listening to is the TNIV published by Hodder. Listening to the whole book in one go gives a very impressive overview and helps you to grasp all the arguements from Job's so called friends. You have to feel sorry for him as he innocently finds himself as a pawn in a spiritual battle played out unseen from his eyes. You feel the pain of his losses as disaster upon disaster strikes until he has little left. Then when things can't get any worse along come his friends to stick the boot in. They are a bit like some christian counsellors who toe the party line and spout dogma without compassion or reality.

Somehow their eyes are closed to the wider picture. If scolars are to be believed then very possibly this could be the earliest book in the Bible possibly even being set before the Flood so they didn't have a lot to go on as far as theology was concerned. Every arguement that the friends make is countered by Job, but none have seen things from God's perspective.

And just when you feel enough is enough God steps in with an amazing 'you know nothing' speech that blows them all away. Talk about majestic and powerful. Wow.

So the story ends happily ever after and with Job restored to health and we have the legacy of an amazing book. And that's just 1 of the 66.