Embracing the Unexpected

Job 5:8-16

⁸ But I would seek God, put my case to God, ⁹ who does great things beyond comprehension, wonderful things without number; ¹⁰ who provides rain over the earth’s surface, sends water to the open country, ¹¹ exalts the lowly, raises mourners to victory; ¹² who frustrates the schemes of the clever so that their hands achieve no success, ¹³ trapping the wise in their cleverness so that the plans of the devious don’t succeed. ¹⁴ They encounter darkness during the day, and at noon they fumble about as at night. ¹⁵ Yet he rescues the orphan from the sword of their mouth, the needy from the grip of the strong; ¹⁶ so the poor have hope and violence shuts its mouth.