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“The Old Testament book about Job is one of the supreme offerings of the human mind to the living God and one of the best gifts of God to men,” writes Francis Andersen. “The task of understanding it is as rewarding as it is strenuous.… One is constantly amazed at its audacious theology and at the magnitude of its intellectual achievement. Job is a prodigious book in the vast range of its ideas,...

God, are dismissed with contempt and disgust. And the terrible Satan is only another of the sons of God. Most commentators assume that the Lord’s court assembles in heaven.10 There is nothing in Job about the location of the levy; for all we are told, it might have occurred on some mountain where the Lord has his headquarters (Deut. 33:2; Judg. 5:4f.; Isa. 14:13), an idea that is historicized at Sinai and Zion and eschatologized in other places (e.g. Isa. 2:2–4). Isaiah saw ‘the Lord of hosts’ in
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