The Book of Job- Theological issues and doubts through each verse.

JOB. This is a book that deals with good and evil and yet fails to mention once a reward or punishment in the afterlife. This is probably a gentile book translated for a Hebrew audience; Job does not know the Israelite name for Yahweh and he himself comes from northern Arabia. The whole purpose of the book apparently is to explain the cause of suffering, and yet it gives no answer at all. Sometimes it …

…description here of it with the ring through its nose it sounds like Yahweh's pet dog. xli.1-34: First reference to the leviathan, which would sound like a description except that it breathes fire. In other passages, it is described as having numerous heads. I guess this fire-breathing monster is supposed to be God. 41:14-24 God thinks that by giving him lots of kids everything's OK and the dead are forgotten, like a new puppy