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On being Job’s friend

Posted on March 5, 2016 Written by Mark McIntyre 5 Comments

Listen to your friend

One of the lessons to be learned from reading the book of Job is that we should be very careful when counseling someone who is going through a difficulty. Job’s friends felt compelled to give advice to Job which ended up being not very helpful.

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