Suffering shows believers why we need a mediator; why Jesus must be our mediator. Job's response to God and his friends included his desire for a middleman, advocate, attorney, and umpire between him and God. "For God is not a man, as I am, that I might answer Him, that we should come to trial together. There is no arbitrator between us who might lay his hand on us both. Let Him take His rod (of punishment) away from me, and let not dread of Him terrify me. Then I would s