By any measure, Job was wildly successful as a business man, a family man and a man of faith. But we don’t know him for his successes: We know him for the story of his fortunes reversing. Untold generations of readers, artists and scholars have looked at Job’s life falling apart and been challenged by his response. The book begins with a simple question: Does Job love God, or does Job just consider God a means to an end? It’s a question we also have to ask of ourselves.

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