expect of a husband or wife; it’s in sickness and in health. It’s not dependent on the feelings of one or the other person; it’s till death do us part. Is God’s relationship with us more like a contract or more like a covenant? The question is raised by the meeting of Yahweh’s cabinet that the story of Job now reports. I used to think of God as being on his own in heaven, sitting in glorious splendor but in isolation. It was a strange assumption, because the Scriptures make clear from beginning to