"He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away." Divine sovereignty over history is as arbitrary as sovereignty over individuals. Great nations rise and fall according to God's will, not according to moral merit or wise governance. This historical observation extends Job's argument: if divine action operates on such a vast scale without regard for justice, how presumptuous to assume it operates by moral calculation on individual human lives.

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