The thing I find truly baffling about the prosperity gospel (and the "just pray harder and if you don't get what you asked for, clearly you're doing it wrong" school) is ... have they never read the Book of Job? You could not ask for a more explicit refutation of the idea that misfortune happens because you are bad. In terms of what the Bible has to say about the WHY behind suffering, I feel like Job is the book that really tackles it. And it's profoundly unsatisfying! Job yells at God, and God basically answers, "I made hippos. You're never going to understand." And yet it's a less horrific answer than "shit happens because you are BAD!" since that is so obviously untrue.

The Book of Job literally has people show up to tell Job that clearly this happened to him because he was bad, in order to say, "look at these assholes! Don't be that guy!"