an answered lament, a model for the appropriate manner of responding to suffering.24 It also has the form of disputation, specifically, a mythological prologue, a debate, and a divine resolution. In addition, the book freely incorporates material from prophetic literature, especially Isaiah 40–55, and traditions concerning the divine self-manifestation.25 The ending to the poetic dialogue, specifically God’s approach to humans, belongs to prophetic and narrative texts but is ill at home within