With increasing acrimony Job's "miserable comforters" drive home the point that God punishes the wicked. They see God as a dispenser of vengeance, totally lacking in love and grace. They echo the developing cults of angry gods who demand personal sacrifice, even child sacrifice, to assuage the penalty for sin. They concentrate on the present situation with no idea of a future and eternal judgment. Job, in his suffering, begins to see the future. In his darkness, his faith shines. His statement, "For I know my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth..." (18:25) resounds through the ages as future believers have found hope in their Redeemer.