November 2, 2008
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I think the book of Job is a series of blog entries:
Job Writes: Life pretty much sucks these days.
Job'sWife Writes: @Job Y'r right.
JobsFriend Writes: @Job It's not that life sucks, it's that you suck at life.
Job Writes: @JobsFriend I'm doing the best I can! It's not fair!
JobFriend Writes: @Job Man, you gotta be missing something or you wouldn't be punished. Maybe when you weren't thinking?
Job Writes: @JobsFriend Nope. Why is God doing this to me!?
JobsFriend Writes: @Job Gotta be something. Keep thinking.
Job Writes: @JobsFriend I still say it's not fair.
God Writes: @Job You're missing the picture, dude. How do you know what's fair and what isn't? I made the place, I know all the rules. Can you tell me the simple rules I use to make the sun go down and up? Make an animal breathe? Can you even get close to the animals that are as tame as kittens? No? Hm.
Job Writes: Ooh. I'm dumb. I guess you know what's fair, eh? Cool. Sorry about the emo whining.
God Writes: @Job It's cool.
Um, to try to tame the flame that I know I'll be getting, I know that's not quite how it went. My version is much shorter, and is only attempting to capture a bit of the emotion, without being very precise on the facts. Yes, I did read the original work. And yeah, I know that God didn't say "It's cool" to Job.
Comments (1)
Sweet summary. I've heard worse summaries from people who thought they were serious theologians.
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