and can be summarized here. The first is that God’s world is much vaster, more complex and more mysterious than Job has recognized. There is much he does not know. It is important for Job to hear this because he has continually extrapolated outwards from his own tragedy to make sweeping generalizations about God’s mismanagement of creation, imagining that God lets evil run free. Yhwh’s questions repeatedly and emphatically show Job that he is not in a position to make such an extrapolation—he simply