The book of Job is not a short book in the Hebrew Bible. In The Jerome Bible Commentary, the late Jesuit scholar Robert MacKenzie, wrote, “The greater part of [Job] is in poetic form; in fact, it is the longest ancient [Hebrew] poem that has survived (perhaps that was ever composed).[1] Its subject is the suffering of a person who is morally and religiously faithful. “Theodicy,” from the Greek words for God and justice, is often the term name given to this discussion, a discussion that has occupied philosophy and theology since ancient times and across different faith traditions.[2]
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