His friends tried to gain a confession from Job. Job tried to get an explanation out of God. And neither ever came. Job never confessed to his friends and God never explained Himself to Job. And thus the problem with pain.

It is fair to say that all humans struggle with the problem of evil. If God is sovereign, why doesn’t he remove all the evil in this world? Why did he allow it in the first place? Can God truly be good if he has the power to stop evil but doesn’t? The harder you try to answer these questions, the more confused you will become. For thousands of years, humanity has wrestled with these questions.