In the twenty-ninth chapter of Job, we find Job mentioning an incredible relationship that he had once experienced: “just as was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent.” (Job 29:4) What in the world could “when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent” possibly mean? First, let’s look at the phrase “in my tent”. Depending on the translation, the phrase might also be “on my tent” or “upon my tent” or “over my tent”. Regardless of in, on, over or upon one’s tent, the Bible Hub website indicates that the “tent” symbolizes a household upon which God’s favor had been extended. Yet it wasn’t just God’s favor that Job was experiencing. The Pulpit Commentary indicates that the phrase “God’s intimate friendship was experienced” could mean something like this: “In my tent I held sweet counsel with God, and communed with him as friend with friend”. There was also a theological meaning to it a...