179 | First cycle of speeches (JOB 4-14)

We're somewhere in the ancient Near East. Scholars argue about exactly where, but the land of Uz — where Job lives — puts us in a world of nomadic wealth, livestock-based prosperity, and one shared moral assumption that ran from Mesopotamia to Egypt: the gods reward the righteous and punish the wicked. That equation seemed obvious. Iron-clad. And then Job happened.Source:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IjRXRCUpa-NBPJtLcidcLsLpIk4XzWte/view?usp=sharing