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J. Gerald Janzen examines the text of the Book of Job as a literary text, within the context of the history of the religion of Israel and within the broader context of the universal human condition. He approaches the basic character of the book from a literary perspective which enables him to identify human existence as exemplified in Job and to expound on the mystery of good and evil, which...

The Voice from the Whirlwind (38:1). “Then Yahweh answered Job from out of the whirlwind.” As has been indicated in the Introduction, Frank Moore Cross interprets the storm language of this verse to indicate El or Baal (the Canaanite storm-god) as speaker. We need not repeat here our disagreement with this view. We may note in this context that the imagery of 38:1 continues the imagery to which Elihu’s lengthy speech has brought him in 36:24–37:24 (cf. also 26:14
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