Daily Devotions
10/30/26 Job 21; Mark 5,6 Job 21 and Mark 5–6 present starkly opposed visions of divine justice—one depicting a world where wickedness goes unpunished and the righteous suffer inexplicably, the other revealing Jesus as the agent of God’s immediate, transformative power over evil and suffering. Unpunished Evil vs. Demonstrated Authority Job observes that good things happen to bad people with appalling regularity, yet sees no evidence of divine justice operating in human affairs to bring the wicked to their well-deserved destruction. [1] The wicked live long lives, grow mighty in power, and spend their days in prosperity before descending peacefully to Sheol. ( Job 21:7–26 ) Job’s complaint centers on the absence of accountability—wickedness flourishes while the righteous languish. Mark 5–6 inverts this entirely. Rather than distant judgment, Jesus exercises immediate dominion over the forces destroying human life. A demon-possessed man whom no one could bind, despite chains and ...