Job Goes to Court: Why Good People Suffer by Harold Fryday

Job is a book of ancient but exquisite poetry. It is also one of the most intellectually challenging books in the Bible.

The reader can both enjoy the beauty of the poetry and follow the discussion about the cause of suffering. The book seeks an answer to a question everyone asks: Why do innocent people, suffer?

Job has a place among the finest books ever produced in the world. The New American Bible calls it "a literary masterpiece." George Bernard Shaw wrote, "The book of Job is one of the most profound pieces of literature ever to grace human existence. Little wonder, then, that renowned novelist, Victor Hugo, once suggested that if all the world's literary efforts were to be destroyed, and he could save but a solitary example, it would be 'Job'" Stephen Mitchell calls it, "This greatest Jewish work of art" and "the central parable of our post-Holocaust age."