Old Testament · Poetry & Wisdom
Job
Job is a righteous man who loses nearly everything, and the book gives forty chapters to honest argument about why. God finally answers, not with an explanation, but with himself.
- Authorship
- The author is unnamed.
- Historical setting
- Patriarchal in feel, outside Israel, in the land of Uz.
- Key themes
- Undeserved suffering · Honest lament · The limits of human wisdom · God's answer
- Where it sits in the story
- Scripture's long look at suffering, placed at the head of the wisdom books.
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