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    Scraping By
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    Scraping By

    By Albert Oon

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    Oh God, why have thou forsaken me?
    Job (Joe-ub) is a man who had everything until it was taken away from him and through it all he still praised God. Now, the devil wants to send Job to Hell with a risk/reward for humanity. Will Job keep his faith or even survive going through Hell?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Oon
    Release dateApr 17, 2017
    ISBN9781370592845
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    Albert Oon

    A Catholic, self-published writer who writes for fun and to help others out. I write in the genres of horror, fantasy, romance, and sci-fi. I hope to be a successful writer who will be successful by helping you through life and possibly even help save your soul by leading you to God.

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      Scraping By - Albert Oon

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      Copyright 2017 Albert Oon

      Published by Albert Oon at Smashwords

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      Prologue – Unfair in Almost Every Sense

      There is a man named Job (Joe-ub) who has everything. A family, a prosperous farming business, more money than he can handle, everything and he thanks God every day for it.

      Satan sees this and says to God, He blesses your name for all he has. I bet you he won’t if he has everything taken away from him.

      God responds, Do what you must, but you cannot hurt him directly.

      Oh I won’t.

      Satan then starts a chain of events that takes everything away from Job. He unleashes disease that kills his crops and farm animals. He tempts men to rape and kill his family. The money Job has kept safe is stolen from him by bandits. Diseases from his crops enter his body and mutate him to make him look ugly. With nothing left, he goes to town to hopefully get the help of others he knows there. He goes in bandages and rags to not attract attention to his deformities.

      Job meets up with people he knows at church and says, Hello friends. Can you spare some medicine, food, or money by any chance? It seems that fate has taken a wrong turn for me.

      One of them says, Oh Job, of course, as they get whatever medicines they have and another gets food and another searches their wallet for spare change.

      A woman gets the medicine and asks Job, Remove your rags so that I can help. So tell me what happened to you.

      O-of course.

      He removes his rags to reveal his deformed appearance as he tells his story

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