It often happens that when calamity strikes our lives we turn to human wisdom in search of answers. We turn to human experience in search of wisdom. We look for all kinds of rational and reasonable explanations. Now none of these are wrong per-se, but the problem occurs when we turn to these sources first and finally in search of answers. Job (the man who was greatly afflicted) was cautious of making such a man-centred quest for answers. He rebuked his counsellors time and again for their misrepresentation of God and the humanness of their wisdom, likening their counsel to ash and their instruction to brittle clay (13:12). He then says something remarkable in verse 15 of chapter 13, “Though He slay me, yet will I hope in Him.” In other words Job is saying that he will look to God alone for the answers he needs. His hope in God is firm and steadfast. Even though he rightly concludes that it is God who has placed a very heavy hand on him, he is unwilling to turn from trusting and hoping in God. For God will never deceive him, or lead him astray.