Like most Christians in our culture, you have probably heard a sermon on Job, the veteran of suffering, now and then. The message in all those sermons was always: Job was okay, he was righteous and innocent. He did nothing wrong. Through great suffering he was tested and tried, and we must do exactly the same. We are not to rebel against suffering and problems, but to willingly endure them.

But there is more in the book of Job if you take the trouble to dig a bit deeper. Was good old Job really as righteous and faultless as we always think? Or was there something in his life that was a tremendous trap, which he recognized, with God's help, right at the end of the book, and for which he repented?

Could this be a trap in our lives too? Perhaps even one that could cost us eternal life?

In a short, interesting sermon, Martin talks about a completely different view of Job.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
Job 42:5-6