When good people suffer, where is God?

Job's character and wealth 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. Sheep: 7,000 Camels: 3,000 Oxen: 500 yoke Female donkeys: 500 Servants: “very many” Sons: seven Daughters: three

Eliphaz the Temanite Job 4:17 ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me. Job 7:16 I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

Bildad the Shuhite Job 8:2 How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? Job 8:6 If you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.

Job 9:22-24 He destroys both the blameless and the wicked. When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges — if it is not he, who then is it?

Zophar the Naamathite Job 11:6 Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

Job 40:1-2 And the Lord said to Job: “Shall a fault-finder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Hebrews 11:1 11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.