Job Revisited

Storm clouds gathering over the desert at Joshua Tree National Park

Why must the wicked always appear to be prospering, while the virtuous are left to miscarry? Not a new question, to be sure, an unnamed Hebrew poet having taken up the tale of unmerited suffering some twenty-five hundred years before, naming it the Book of Job, a text which has remained every bit as timeless as, say, the tragedies of Sophocles or Shakespeare. So, it’s not likely to go out of…

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