What Job Is Really About (and the answer will shock you)

“Job”, Antonio de Pereda



Job is normally presented as a story of an individual sufferer, which is all fine and dandy. But there is another way to read this book.

Job can also be read–and in fact has been read–on a nationalistic level:

Job represents the people of Judah in exile and then coming out of it.

Here are three points to ponder.

1. In 42:7-17, Job recei…