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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
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Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The most important part of the story (to me) is when his friends come and tell Job that he must be evil to deserve misfortune. Job knows he has been good and faithful and he is strong in that belief, so instead of accepting their backwards reasoning, he goes to ask God for an explanation.

(This actually shows his belief in his own faithfulness is stronger than his belief that God will be good to the faithful and he is justified by the next part.)

After much begging and pleading, God gives him an explanation, but it is "sorry bro, Gods don't really care about mortal suffering".

Then after God proved his point, he rewards Job after all, but it's honestly a cop-out to let the story have some other ending than just "and then Job fucking died". I think the story is older than the idea of heaven or Job could have had his reward there. Might have gelled better with the New Testament.