fevers, pleurisy, gout, colic, haemorrhoids, arthritis, acute pain in the knees and feet, gallstones and kidney stones. Calvin, like Job, was suffering.5 In the opening sermon on Job 1:1, Calvin gives us the key that unlocks the book of Job: ‘In all this disputation, Job maintains a good case, and contrariwise his adversaries maintain an evil case. And yet it is more, that Job maintains a good quarrel, did handle it ill, and that the other setting forth a poor case, did convey it well. The understanding