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Job 1–21: Interpretation and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Hebrew book of Job is by all accounts an exquisite piece of literary art that holds its rightful place among the most outstanding compositions in world literature. Yet it is also widely recognized as an immensely difficult text to understand. In elucidating that ancient text, this inaugural Illuminations commentary by C. L. Seow pays close attention to the reception history of Job, including...

sullies him even though he tries to make himself clean (9:30–31) and hunts him for sport and just to look awesome (10:16). God even destabilizes society (12:16–25), places unreasonable restrictions on his freedom, and keeps him under unrelenting surveillance (13:26–27; cf. 7:18; 14:3a, 5). God destroys hope (14:19c) and acts like a father who disingenuously avows outsiders or worse, evil, while his own children are aggrieved (17:5). Job imagines taking God to court (9:2–3, 14–16; 13:17–18) and even
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