My notes ended there-- it seemed the argument among the characters was finished. Job's fourth friend arrived, and put each in his place. The ultimate solution was to recognize that the greatness of God, and the designs of God, ultimately surpassed human understaning. Our individual, finite experience of the world cannot tell us the ultimate meaning of the world, and we shouldn't expect it to. Introduction of Leviathan and Behemoth, examples of the inscrutability of God's design.
Ultimately, Job was restored and his three friends punished. Speaks to the importance of maintaining faith, even in the face of questioning. Soulful searching for answers is perfectly all right-- righteous disparaging of the faithful, and of the searching, is not.
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