Wrestling With God...

Job can only assume God is persecuting him- hideing from him.

He lashes out at God in pain and anguish. " If I have sinned, what have I done to you , O watcher of men ?
Why have you made me your target? Job complains ( Job 7:20 )

We should not mistake Job's terrible discouragement , his lashing out at God , for disbelief. God's existence is not in question.

Job knows that somewhere in the universe God must be alive.
" Thought he slays me, yet I will hope in him, " Job cries out in dispairing belief ( Job 13:15 )

Still trusting in God as his Advocate , Job insists, " I know my Redeemer lives" ( Job 19:25 )

Meanwhlie , Job's friends are shocked at his outbursts against God...
Surely , the comforters think , the fire of God is about to burn up this man...

They are afraid to admit that no cause- and -effect exists for Job's painfull trail...
That would imply they live in a senseless world...

How could God be just and strike Job unjustly ?