movingly put it, he was responding ‘like a child in the darkness gripped in his father’s arms’. God does not give us all the answers we want, and to claim that he does is both cruel and absurd. As the Australian author Peter Bloomfield puts it, ‘The last thing needed by hurting people is the voice of opinionated advisers who presume to interpret providence.’ One message that comes across very powerfully from Job’s experience is this: it is less important to know all the answers than to know and trust