The Book of Job is one of three great poetical books of the Old Testament, Psalms and Proverbs being the other two. They lie in the third division of the Old Testament canon called the Hagiographa (the other two divisions are the Law and the Prophets). Despite their poetic form they are didactic in nature and are intended to teach us about God and about ourselves. Each line of the Book of Job is limited to three or four major words, with the second line of each pair essentially