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WHEN Job was plunged in deepest misery, deprived of everything and deserted by all, he turned to his friend Bildad in his grief. Despite his miserable circumstances, however, Job ended his lament with a spontaneous confession of faith, ‘But I know that my Redeemer liveth’ (Job 19:25). Popularised by the aria from Händel’s Messiah, these words of Job have come to be among the best-known utterances in the Old Testament. And if we consider the profound misery of Job’s situation at the time, we cannot but be impressed by the resilience of his faith and the strength of his hope.
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© 1981 Vincent Brümmer
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Brümmer, V. (1981). Religious Belief. In: Theology and Philosophical Inquiry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17387-7_16
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