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In The Trial of Job, Father Patrick Reardon helps the reader identify with Job on multiple levels, making him accessible to those less familiar with Scripture, those who cannot relate to the extent of his suffering and despair, as well as those who have had their share of tragedy.

things. He and his companions are unable to see that the sufferings of Job do not mean that something is wrong with Job; they mean, on the contrary, that something is right with Job. “The friends of Job,” wrote St. Gregory the Great, “being unable to distinguish these different kinds of scourges, considered him to be smitten because he was guilty. Hence, they endeavored to vindicate the justice of God for smiting him. They were compelled to blame blessed Job for injustice, unaware that for this reason,
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