my concept of God.’ ”11 For Naomi, her circumstances indicated that God is great but not good. He may be able to do with her as he pleases (and who can argue?), but his pleasure lacks empathy and kindness. With such distorted (i.e., circumstance-dependent) theology and a crushed spirit, she never prayed. Instead, she despaired, resigning herself to the inevitable machinations of a cruel deity. The text, however, has not told us that God was angry with Naomi. She was therefore mistaken to measure