few thoughts...

- The body of Jesus for ever bears the scars of crucifixion, and they are its chief glory. If the passion of Job was an early sketch of the greatest Sufferer, it remains for His later followers to enter into 'the fellowship of his sufferings' (Phil. 3:10 AV) and joyfully to supply what is still needed to complete the sufferings of Christ (Col. 1:24).
- For He is the chief Pilgrim and Pioneer of this way, 'a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief' (Is. 53:3). His Gethsemane was a human experience, but it exceeds all others in its intensity and in its healing power. The full burden of our anxieties crushed Him. What Job longed for blindly has actually happened.
- God Himself has joined us in our hell of loneliness, and acquired a new completeness through what He endured (Heb. 5:7-9). All the 'meanings' of suffering converge on Christ. He entered a domain of suffering reserved for Him alone.
- No man can bear the sin of another, but Jesus carried the sins of all. As the Substitute for all sinners, His sufferings were penal, a bearing of the death penalty for sin.
- They were also a full and authentic sharing of our human condition with a love that gave itself completely into the furnace of affliction.
- That the Lord Himself has embraced and absorbed the undeserved consequences of all evil is the final answer to Job and to all the Jobs of humanity.
- As an innocent sufferer, Job is the companion of God.