Job got what he wanted. He got a chance to present his case before God and to hear God's response. After hearing God's reply to him, he confesses that he said things that he really did not understand. There were things about God, creation, and human life that were just too wonderful for him, things that he did not know. His accusation before God now seemed to him to be ludicrous and unwarranted.

But at no time did God ever chastise him for speaking his mind. It was those moments of desertion and abandonment and the absence of God's presence that most of his hearers and readers identify with Job. This is the universal feeling of those who have walked the path of faith. Who has not felt at some time in life forsaken by God? How many times have you prayed and felt, saw, and sensed nothing? T…