The “I” in Psalm 73 and Job do not, however, do this out of individual self–righteousness, but as “structural” agents of the problem: their “life–crisis” is the expression and result of a severe social and religious shock in their epoch. It is the apprehension of a fundamental God–crisis, namely the refutation of the good and just, saving and happiness–giving God by social and political realities. This is not about the misery and suffering of an individual, but about structural suffering, which