Anger and Job's Silence

Before we start

Let me set the terms. This is not an argument about doctrinal correctness. It is one reader's account of what the text can be made to yield. I am going to leave the ending open on purpose.（マタイによる福音書 14:32）

3またアンモンびとトビヤは、彼のかたわらにいて言った、「そうだ、彼らの築いている城壁は、きつね一匹が上ってもくずれるであろう」と。

ネヘミヤ記 4:3（口語訳（日本語））

In an ordinary week

This is where I stopped. I could not go forward, so I stayed with the same few lines for a long time. I have come to think the staying was the point.

• A direct look at the part of this text that rarely gets preached.
• I stopped here in the middle of a read-through, and wrote from the stopping.
• One verse, read slowly, with one word held up to the light.
• What came into view when I set three translations side by side.

This is where I stopped. I could not go forward, so I stayed with the same few lines for a long time. I have come to think the staying was the point.

• Notes from reading a canonical and a non-canonical text next to each other.
• What came into view when I set three translations side by side.