From the depths of discouragement and despondency Job rose to the heights of implicit trust in the mercy and the saving power of God. Triumphantly he declared: 164 "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him: . . . He also shall be my salvation." "I know that my Redeemer liveth, And that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, Yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, And mine eyes shall behold, and not another." Job 13:15, 16; 19:25-27.

Men skønt Job var træt af livet, fik han ikke lov at dø. Hans tanker blev ledet hen på fremtiden med dens muligheder, og der blev sendt ham et budskab med håb: