Chapter Five Ashes & Paradox

And here is where you have to slow down and hear what Job is actually saying, because the surface reading and the true reading are not the same thing. Job is not asking to die. He never asks God to kill him. He never makes a plan. He never moves toward the exit. What he is doing is something far more human and far more precise: he is wishing the suffering had never begun. Truthwins.com