as in the section titled “The Theological Message of the Book of Job” below, I will delineate the plot and also discuss the characters and setting.39 The bulk of the book is poetry. Hebrew poetry has different conventions and triggers different reading strategies. The conventions include parallelism, imagery, and terse lines. Poetry says a lot using only a few words. Thus, one reading strategy that poetry triggers is to slow down and meditate on the richness of meaning and feeling evoked by the language.