protect the stranger, and uphold the widow and orphan. Their God is a God who cares and who acts. As profound as Israel’s faith was, it was exposed to constant temptation. Then as now, good people suffered and died and were the victims of oppression and injustice. The book of Job offers moving testimony of the struggle of a believing Jew to reconcile his faith with the fact of suffering and evil. As long as people had no sense of a fulfillment of life beyond death, the riddle was insoluble. One way