Job’s Longing and Lament — “Though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust”
(Job 16–17 | Chapter XII of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s *The Story of Job*) “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him…” —Job 13:15 (KJV, echoing the tone of Job 16–17) Job opens with words that should humble every would-be comforter: “Miserable comforters are ye all.” (16:2) He’s no longer hoping his friends will help.He…