Summary of the Book of Job

Job is a "man...blameless and upright...one who feared God, and turned away from evil" (1.1). He is pious, rich, and the head of a large family. Then on a day "when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord" (1.6), God asks his adversary (Satan) what he thinks of Job's righteousness. Satan proposes that Job would curse God if he were to lose all his wealth; so God and Satan agree to …

…reciting empty dogma, as his friends had done. Job is right in admitting he doesn't understand the universe, and God takes Job's personal experinece seriously in a way that Job's so called friends could not. The moral of this story may be the fact that there is no solution to the notion of suffering, and if there is it is completely incomprehensible to human beings, because the world and universe are so vast and chaotic.