Book of Job

The Book of Job takes the form of a poetical drama. It is, at least in part, the earliest of the poetic books of the Bible, and the oldest drama in the world. It opens with a prose prelude, telling who Job was and how his difficulties arose. Job apparently lived about the time of Moses, so that we must associate with our ideas of him and of the scenes among which he moved, the partriarchial simplicity of those early days.

The book consists of five parts: the historical facts, the discussion between Job and his three firends, Job's discussion with Elihu, God speaking out of the storm, and the successful termination of the trial. The Book of Job is a discussion of the great problem of human life-- How can the terrible suffering which sometimes falls upon the righteous be explained and justified?

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