sheepishly that he had uttered “what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know” (Job 42:3). In practical terms it is perfectly suitable to say that Job was right and his friends were wrong, but on closer inspection we easily see that this description of the situation is convenient shorthand. We would more precisely say that Job and his friends were partly right and partly wrong, but in a way that made Job’s partial understanding of human suffering more complete and healthy