Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost; 17 October 2021; Proper 24B (RCL); Job 38:1-7, 34-41; Psalm 104:1-9, 25, 37b; Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:25-45.
Not very many people are satisfied with God’s answer to Job. God has allowed the Satan to reduce Job’s condition to misery and yet Job refuses to curse God. He even insists that if he could find God, he would lay his case before God, and God would vindicate him. And when God does show up, God calls Job’s attention to the act of creation, even pointing out Leviathan and Behemoth (the hippopotamus?). What has one to do with the other?
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