Job
Unknownc. 500 BCE
Job is the Bible's most profound meditation on undeserved suffering and the limits of human understanding.
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Why It Matters
Job is the Bible's most profound meditation on undeserved suffering and the limits of human understanding. Its refusal to offer easy answers has made it the touchstone for theodicy — the problem of evil — in Western philosophy and theology.