Characters: Job (“perfect and upright” man from Uz), God, Satan, Eliphaz (Job’s friend), Bildad (Job’s friend), Zophar (Job’s friend), & Elihu (messenger of God).

Plot: Job, blessed since he beginning of his days with 10 healthy, wealthy children and much land and livestock, is suddenly stricken with bad luck from God. Satan, coming forth from Earth, challenges God to cause Job suffering as to see if Job would still remained God-fearing if everything he used to thank God for were taken away. Throughout the tale, Job’s three friends (Eliphaz, Bildad, & Zophar) question and advise Job to overcome his iniquity and find out why he is being punished so he can get back what he once had. Job questions God and becomes angry when he feels that he does realize why he is being punished. Themes occurring in this work include those of human suffering and integrity. Job suffers mentally, physically, and economically by God’s hand and, though questioning everything from his own iniquity and purity, comes to accept God’s act of punishment and learns from his experience and eventually is granted his prosperous life back after Elihu pleads his case to God. God convinces Job that

One of the literary elements present in this story is similes. As used in this statement by Job: “Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.” Another simile is clearly present in this quote uttered by Job referring to the brevity of life: “He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down.”

Comments: “The Book of Job,” though controversial for its time, was written anonymously for a myriad of reasons. For one, questioning God was a radical thought at the time. It was probably forbidden. Job reveals that he wishes to confront God about why he has been stricken with such misfortune. As quoted from the story, “Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.” Job was angry at God as well and openly expresses his anger to his friends. Job also claims to know what God would say or think: “…I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.” I also feel that the book was written anonymously as so one would not associate the book with just the author’s life. One should use their own life experiences to further enhance the story according to their own knowledge as so the book would have a more profound meaning for them.

Observations: I found that Job’s three friends (Eliphaz, Bildad, & Zophar) all spok

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