From Job’s perspective it is simply bewildering. Satan’s involvement is not suspected at all. It all seems so natural: terrorists, lightning, a cyclone; things like this happen to people, as we know from our newspapers all too well. In this sense, Job is Everyman: his needs are human needs. But in another sense Job was out on his own. He was a righteous and godly man, a paradigm of goodness. He was the most extreme example of bad things happening to good people. Yet Job insists on