Discovering the Old Testament: Part 39
One of the most controversial and difficult books in the Old Testament, the Book of Job flies directly in the face of one of the Bible’s favourite themes, namely that if you do everything you are supposed to, everything will work out. For those believers facing the inscrutable ambiguity of the universe (i.e., all of them), Job offers an unflinching look at one of the most difficult problems in the Judeo-Christian tradition: the problem of undeserved suffering.