Can we say, ‘Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away’?
Job 1:21 – “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”
Not everyone thinks this famous confession, uttered by Job after all his sons and daughters had perished, is good theology.
Ben Witherington, whose daughter tragically died in 2012, wrote this:-
…‘According to Job 1, it was not God but the Devil who took away Job’s children, health, and wealth. God allowed it to happen, but when Job said these words, as the rest of the story shows, he was not yet enlightened about the true nature of the source of his calamity and God’s actual will for his life.