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The title character of the book of Job suffers terribly, but we should not mistakenly think that this book is just about Job. It is about all of us, and ultimately about God. Many have thought that the book simply restates the perennial questions that plague humankind in a world full of suffering. But often our questions are too limited, and we must learn to ask better questions so that we might...

WE MUST FIRST NOTICE that it is Yahweh who speaks. This marks a shift in terms, because throughout the dialogues and discourses of the book, the deity has most often been identified as El Shaddai or Elohim.4 The use of Yahweh in the prologue and now in the divine speeches may well have significance, but it is not transparent what it might be. One might note that Shaddai pertains to the power of God and the switch to Yahweh may signal a theological upgrade in how the audience
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