Following Edgar Jones in The Triumph of Job, we can underline at least the following five features of the prologue, which contribute to our understanding of the rest of the book. First, chapters 1 to 2 ‘put out of court the view that all suffering must be due to sin’.18 We, the readers, know that Job was not being punished for his sins. Sometimes, of course, the Bible indicates that suffering is due to sin. Miriam is struck with leprosy for hers.19 A failure to partake of the Holy Communion in an