named Elihu who jumps on the pile, tell a story, though the plot has been obscured by the poetic format and the uneven condition of the text, one of the most notoriously difficult sections of the Bible. The dialogue at the core of the book is shaped like a legal proceeding, a court case. The underlying metaphor is that Job is filing a lawsuit against God for breach of contract, accusing God of not enforcing moral cause and effect by allowing the righteous to suffer and the wicked to prosper.13 Job