In return, advertisers provide programs that allow the viewer to escape
into vicarious experience but perhaps most importantly, to reassure them of some degree of order and stability in their lives.
In the Old Testament's treatment of the problem of suffering are some of the most notable expressions in literature of ethical insight
into the meaning of retribution, profound faith in the ultimate justice of God, personal courage in accepting trouble as self - discipline, spiritual understanding of
vicarious sacrifice, and religious
experience of a trustworthy God; and, accompanying all these, the refrain of the disillusioned also, «Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.»