“The book of Job,” wrote Heinrich Heine, “is the Song of Songs of skepticism, and in it terrifying serpents hiss their eternal question: Why?” Why do we ask “why” upon reading the book of Job? Simply because what happened to Job and what happens to so many of us seems so utterly inconsistent with what we know to be true of God. If God is good and great, as we believe He is, how can He stand idly by and permit a righteous man like Job to suffer so horribly? This is a book that chronicles the