fact that there are two speeches of Yahweh 38:1–40:2 and 40:6–41:34, each with a response from Job 40:3–5 and 42:1–6), all set within a prose framework (chs. 1–2; 42:7–17) usually thought to be an old folk-tale. Two main problems are dealt with by the book. The first is that of the suffering of the innocent, with Job, who feels that he is completely innocent of any wrong-doing, asking why he is being made to suffer in the way he is. This is a question which occurs in a number of passages in the immediately