The problem with God is not just that he is superwise and superpowerful (9:19); it is rather that he is by settled design hostile to his creation. As Job puts it, sardonically: “Being God, he never withdraws his anger” (9:13). The ancient myths were right, thinks Job, when they recounted that the first thing God ever did was to create the world by slaying the chaos monster, in a primeval act of aggression (9:13). Not only toward creation at large but toward Job in particular God’s attitude has been,