I. Job and the Crisis of Wisdom – II. The Job Novella – III. Job's Dialogue with His Friends – IV. God's Response
I. Job and the Crisis of Wisdom
With Qohelet , Job bears literary witness to the crisis of wisdom thought in the Old Testament. According to the wisdom tradition, God formed the world embodying a good and just order. This order reveals itself to those who seek knowledge; it vouchsafes them knowl…