La Route Antique Des Hommes Pervers

What do we know about the Book of Job? Not very much. The hero complains

endlessly. He has just lost his children all his livestock. He scratches his

ulcers. The misfortunes of which he complains are all duly enumerated in the

prologue. They are misfortunes brought on him by Satan with God's permission.

We think we know, but are we sure? Not once in the Dialogues does Job mention

either Satan or anything about his misdeeds. Could it be that they are too

much on his mind for him to mention them?

Possibly, yet Job mentions everything else, and does much more than mention.

He dwells heavily on the cause of his misfortune, which is none of those

mentioned in the prologue. The cause is not divine, satanic nor physical, but

merely human.