The Book of Job is a cry of the heart. Job dared to challenge God. Why do good people suffer? Shouldn’t the innocent be rewarded and the evil punished? The book begins with the prose explanation to how Job found himself in such dire straights. The bulk of the book is poetry — eloquent explorations of the ways of God in world. To be honest, there is no good explanation of innocent suffering in the book. What Job discovered is that even if he doesn’t understand what God is doing, he can lean on the relationship with God to sustain him. That is the challenge each one of us faces as well. We don’t always understand the “whys;” we can rely on the “who,” on God.
