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00:00Even a man convinced of his faith has a question that seems to have no answer.
00:13If God exists, and even more so, if God is good, why does he allow the innocent to suffer?
00:21Israel tried to resolve this issue, but its answers were not satisfactory.
00:26Until the author of the book of Job brought the matter to the forefront.
00:31Job, a righteous man according to the standards of antiquity, is suddenly filled with misfortunes.
00:39His friends try to convince him that he must have done something wrong to be in this situation.
00:46Job knows and confesses that he has not sinned, nor does he think he deserves such treatment.
00:52God presents him with his condition as a creature, and Job will know that the only attitude towards evil is trust in God, who never abandons his own.
01:04According to the biblical narrative, this story begins with five scenes set on earth and in the sky.
01:12In the first of these we see Job, a righteous man who had been blessed with many children and possessions.
01:20In the second, one day, the angels appeared to the Lord and along with them Satan.
01:27God asked him where he came from, to which Satan replied that he had been wandering around the earth.
01:33The Lord asks him if he has noticed his servant Job, presuming his creature as a righteous, honest, religious man who is far removed from evil.
01:44To which Satan replied that if it was so, it was because he had been greatly blessed with all kinds of good things.
01:52and that it would only be enough for him to touch his possessions for him to see how he renounced his Lord.
01:58God accepted that Job's possessions could be affected, as long as it did not affect him personally.
02:06In the third scene we see how all kinds of calamities befall Job.
02:13He loses all his children, his livestock, his employees, and his property.
02:20Faced with this situation, the saint tears his clothes, shaves his head, and throws himself on the ground.
02:26But despite everything, he did not curse God.
02:30In the fourth scene we see another dialogue between God and Satan,
02:36where the Lord explains to Satan what Job experienced and how faithful he remained to him despite his misfortunes.
02:45To which Satan replies that this happens because he was not touched in his person.
02:51So God allows him to harm him personally, as long as he does not end his life.
02:59Finally, Satan leaves God's presence and goes in search of Job to afflict him with sores all over his body.
03:08His wife, not understanding his patience, tries to get him to renounce God.
03:14However, Job responds with these famous words.
03:21Woman, don't talk nonsense.
03:24If we accept the good things God sends us, why wouldn't we also accept the bad things?
03:30Now, Job had three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.
03:40Upon learning of all the misfortunes that had befallen Job, they decided to go and comfort him and accompany him in his grief.
03:48From a distance they saw their friend and could barely recognize him.
03:54As they approached, they began to scream and cry.
03:56Then they sat on the ground with him and for seven days and seven nights they remained there without saying a single word.
04:06because they saw that Job's pain was very great.
04:10These scenes are followed by a monologue in which Job's proverbial patience ends in an outpouring of lamentations.
04:18where he curses the day and the night, expresses his longing to die and his feeling cornered by God.
04:27Throughout the following chapters, Job's friends, one by one, try to reproach him for his words,
04:36convinced that this is happening to him because of his own actions.
04:39And furthermore, making it seem as if what they are doing is defending God, when in reality, behind their words,
04:47It conceals a defense of their preconceived ideas of God.
04:52Words to which Job remains firm in his position.
04:58He is innocent before God.
05:01Let us read some of the expressions of suffering of this righteous man.
05:05I'm tired of living.
05:11I'm going to vent my complaints.
05:14I'm going to give free rein to my bitterness.
05:17Oh God, do not declare me guilty.
05:20Tell me what you're accusing me of.
05:22Since you created me,
05:24Do you think it's okay to mistreat and despise me and show yourself favorable to the plans of the bad guys?
05:31Even despite all of Job's suffering,
05:37We can see that nothing weighs as heavily on him as the confusion he experiences regarding his relationship with God.
05:46Is God being their enemy?
05:50For Job, it is difficult to feel that loving presence of the Lord.
05:54However, God has been present at all times.
05:58He Himself answers Job, the Lord has been hearing everything and taking note.
06:05He has been there every step of the way, listening to him, supporting him, and strengthening their relationship.
06:14For us, in moments of suffering, perhaps what weighs most heavily is the suffering itself.
06:22because this is what we have in front of us.
06:24Faced with a scenario of pain,
06:28We find it difficult to understand the mystery of faith that goes into going through these situations.
06:35However, we must accompany this with Job's vision,
06:39focus on our relationship with God.
06:42It certainly wasn't easy for Job either,
06:45But although he will never know the reason for his suffering,
06:49Deep down, he knows he's not alone.
06:52And this gives her strength to endure her struggle.
06:57Faced with the question of why suffering occurs,
07:01Saint John Paul II in his apostolic letter,
07:04The salvific value of suffering,
07:07It tells us the following.
07:08Within every suffering experienced by man,
07:14and also in the depths of the world of suffering,
07:17The question inevitably arises,
07:20Because?
07:21It's a question about the cause, the reason.
07:25A question about the purpose.
07:29Ultimately, it's about meaning.
07:31This not only accompanies human suffering,
07:35but it seems to determine even the human content.
07:40That is why suffering is properly human suffering.
07:46Obviously, pain, especially physical pain,
07:49It is widespread in the animal world,
07:53But only when man suffers,
07:56She knows she is suffering and wonders why.
07:59And suffers in a way that is humanly even more profound,
08:04if you do not find a satisfactory answer.
08:08This is a difficult question.
08:10as is another very similar one,
08:12That is, the one that refers to evil.
08:16Why evil?
08:17Why is there evil in the world?
08:20When we phrase the question this way,
08:23We always do, at least to some extent,
08:25a question also about suffering.
08:28Both questions are difficult when man asks man.
08:33men to men,
08:35as well as when man makes them to God.
08:38Indeed, man does not ask this question of the world,
08:42even though the suffering often comes from him,
08:46but rather it makes God as creator and lord of the world.
08:50In the face of pain, illness, and death,
09:03These questions are part of the cry of suffering of the people.
09:07This letter is an approach to the evangelical message that humanizes pain and illness.
09:15and that invite us not to fall into frustrating extremisms that dehumanize the person.
09:22We would be talking about it being at the moments of greatest incapacity
09:26that through the experience of faith in Christ, an authentic and new inner maturity can be achieved,
09:34to reach an unimaginable spiritual greatness.
09:39Such should be the vision of a people who know they are saved by God.
09:44For a God who seeks only the happiness of man
09:48and that this can be achieved even in the midst of suffering.
09:54God's people have experienced pain,
09:58But he has also found happiness in knowing himself to be favored and chosen by the Lord.
10:06After hearing God's words and having understood Job,
10:10their closeness during the test,
10:13He has no choice but to admit his ignorance to him by saying,
10:18Who am I to doubt your providence?
10:23Thus showing my ignorance.
10:26I was talking about things I don't understand,
10:29things so wonderful that I cannot comprehend them.
10:33You told me,
10:34Listen, I want to talk to you.
10:37Answer these questions for me.
10:40Until now, I only knew of you by reputation,
10:43But now I see you with my own eyes.
10:46Therefore, I retract my statement in regret.
10:50sitting in the dust and ashes.
10:54In the aforementioned apostolic letter,
10:57Saint John Paul II tells us,
11:00Job, however,
11:01Answer the truth from the beginning.
11:03which identifies suffering with the punishment of sin
11:07and he does so based on his own experience.
11:10Indeed,
11:12He is aware that he did not deserve such punishment.
11:17Furthermore,
11:18He explains the good he has done throughout his life.
11:21In the end,
11:22God himself rebukes Job's friends
11:24because of his accusations
11:26and acknowledges that Job is not guilty.
11:29His is the suffering of an innocent person.
11:33It must be accepted as a mystery.
11:35that man cannot fully understand
11:38with his intelligence.
11:41In his later years,
11:43The Lord blessed Job
11:45much more abundantly than in the past.
11:49The righteous man lived 140 years
11:53and met his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
11:57Job died very old
11:58and filled with goods.
12:06This book constitutes
12:08the most representative
12:10of the wisdom works
12:11under the name of Proverbs.
12:14In Hebrew,
12:14Meshalim,
12:16It includes a set of collections,
12:18judgments,
12:20sayings,
12:20proverbs
12:21and instructions
12:22of an ethical nature
12:24and moral
12:24through which
12:26the aim is to convey
12:27wisdom
12:28that the people
12:29has accumulated
12:30for centuries.
12:32This work,
12:33being a product
12:34of a long process
12:36meditation
12:36on behalf of God's people,
12:39not easily found
12:40a date,
12:42that is to say,
12:43It is unknown
12:43when it was written,
12:45although they are supposed to
12:46several centuries
12:47in its composition
12:48until
12:49reaches
12:50its final form.
12:52The book
12:52from the Proverbs
12:53group
12:54a collection
12:54of four groups
12:56of sentences
12:56of very varied
12:58origin
12:58and theme.
13:00Some of them
13:01maybe it can have
13:02as an author
13:03to Solomon himself,
13:04but also
13:05There are sentences
13:06awarded
13:07to Egyptian sages
13:09or foreign sages.
13:11It is found
13:11in addition
13:12a series
13:13of sentences
13:14in which
13:14wisdom
13:15personified
13:16He tells us
13:17of their closeness
13:18with the Lord.
13:20God is found
13:21present
13:21in the ethical world
13:23and wisdom
13:24from the Book of Proverbs.
13:25He is
13:26who possesses
13:27wisdom
13:28and grants
13:29common sense
13:30to every human being.
13:33The first ones
13:34nine chapters
13:35make up
13:35the first collection
13:37and constitute
13:38a species
13:38introduction
13:39throughout the book.
13:41They follow
13:41Proverbs
13:42of Solomon
13:43that correspond
13:44of the chapter
13:4510, verse 1
13:46to the chapter
13:4822, verse 16
13:50and the chapters
13:52of the 25th
13:53to the 29th.
13:54The third collection
13:56These are the words
13:56of the wise
13:57inspired
13:58in wisdom
13:59Egyptian
14:00and it corresponds
14:01to the chapters
14:0222, verse 17
14:05to the chapter
14:0624, verse 22
14:08and the chapters
14:0923 to 24.
14:12And finally
14:12four little ones
14:14collections
14:14that end
14:15with the poem
14:16of praise
14:17to the virtuous woman
14:18and correspond
14:19to the chapters
14:2030 to 31.