The text before us is perhaps the best known biblical illustration of what is commonly referred to as Murphy's Law.
Nonbiblical, contemporary examples abound. You've made arrangements to receive a call from a client on your cell phone at 3 p.m. and you've been taking calls all morning, but as 3 p.m. arrives, your battery goes dead, you don't have a charger and you miss the call.
Your 6-year-old kid has been rehearsing her part as a turkey for the Thanksgiving school play about the Pilgrims and the Indians. When you get to the performance, you take a couple shots, then the battery dies and you miss the shots you really wanted.
You're not going to be late to work, but to make it on time, the universe needs to cooperate. And, of course, it doesn't. You have a flat -- bad enough -- but then you discover that the spare is also flat. This all happens today because yesterday you told your boss you were late because you had a flat tire -- which you didn't. Now you do.
It's mid-evening and you're...
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