Friday, October 7, 2016

Comparing Another Story To Job

The story of Job has many similarities to this story about the Holocaust. I noticed a question that can relate to both of the stories and that's why do bad things happen to good people? Most of the Jews did everything right and they still got punsished. Except this time he wasn't really testing anyone's loyalty or faith God  just killed millions of completely innocent people. God also has a way of making everything violent. He makes it seem like violence is always the answer and it's starting to become a pattern throughout both of these stories. Another similarity in both stories is that in Job and in Mr. Menachem Daum both question everything God has done. For example, in the article the mother said, "if God did so many miracles during biblical times, then why hadn’t she seen any such miracles during the Holocaust?" Also in the story of Job, Job says, “Why is light [or life] given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave? Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?”


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