Top Highlights

• Though he is unaware of any sin in his life that has attracted such suffering, Job knows he is not sinless. But why should that attract so much suffering?
• his friends should still be his friends; that they are condemning him because they themselves cannot bear the thought that an innocent person might suffer; that their rebuke calls into question his lifelong integrity.
• marriage relieves sexual pressure; to deny sexual pressure and cling desperately to celibate asceticism may lead to gross sexual sins (as it often has).
• Paul insists that sexual privileges and responsibilities are reciprocal:
• according to Scripture, sex must never be used as a weapon, offered as a bribe, or withheld as a punishment.