His God shows some affinity with the situation of Job in the Bible. A man who had been prosperous and healthy is afflicted and then scorned by his friends. However, unlike Job’s protestations of innocence, the Sumerian concludes that all humans are inherently sinful, and so he asks for forgiveness, just as Job’s friends encourage him to do. He addresses his personal god (cf. Job’s hope for an advocate in Job 9:33; 19:25), and his situation is reversed. Another parallel between Sumerian and biblical