Job Tormented by his Wife and Demons
Lucas Emil
(Note: Lucas Emil Vorsterman the Elder, Flemish, 1595-1675. It is an engraving printed on black inlaid paper and was a gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan. – Shades and Shadows)
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
Man’s misery consists in the fact that he is not God. He is continually forgetting this.
Still from the Christian video “10 Reasons to Believe in a God that Allows Suffering”.
[N]o suffering ever advents as the suffering of no one.
The sensitivity of the innocent victim who suffers is like felt crime. True crime cannot be felt. The innocent victim who suffers knows the truth about his executioner, the executioner does not know it. The evil which the innocent victim feels in himself is in his executioner, but he is not sensible of the fact. The innocent victim can only know the evil in the shape of suffering. That which is not felt by the criminal is his own crime. That which is not felt by the innocent victim is his own innocence. It is the innocent victim who can feel hell.
Little Bristling Soul 