Addressing the Question of Innocent Suffering of Christians in the Light of Wisdom in Job 28

Abstract

Modern day Christians describe prosperity as a sign of being blessed by God and suffering as a sign of being cursed by God. Many contemporary Christians emphasize more the preaching of material prosperity as a means of determining who is righteous. In other words, suffering is being equated with sin. It is against this backdrop that this paper evaluated the suffering of the innocent in the light of Job 28. The work discovered that ultimate wisdom lies with God because God is a mystery and many times cannot be understood. The study adopted hermeneutical method of biblical interpretation. It is the conclusion of this work that faithful submission to God’s providential dealings in conditions of understandable inveterate pain and suffering, just like the Old Testament Job, is the prototypical Christian living.