The Book of Job's Wisdom on How God Runs the World


"A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last" -Job 12:1
The vacuum is created by the absence of the reality that fills it. The story of Job, recounted in the the book by his name, is one of the oldest of the Bible's stories in form, context, and telling. Long before prophets hinted at the possibility of an afterlife, Job longs for it, wonders about it, and mulls the possibility that humans were made for eternity. In the longing is the seed of truth that what we deeply gravitate toward is intrinsic to the reality of what is. The vacuum is created by the absence of the reality that fills it.

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