181 | Third cycle (JOB 22-27)

The book of Job is set in a world the author deliberately placed in the ancient past — a pre-Israelite time, somewhere in the land between modern-day Jordan and Arabia, before the covenant with Moses, before the Exodus, before Israel existed as a nation. The composition of the book itself is most likely from the Persian period, around the fifth or sixth century BCE, but the story is set in a much older world: one where wisdom literature is a live tradition, where educated men gather, exchange proverbs, debate theology, and argue about how God works. The book is a long philosophical poem about suffering and justice — specifically, about what it means to have a relationship with a God who doesn't explain himself. By the time we get to chapters twenty-two through twenty-seven, we're in the third and final round of a formal debate between Job and his three so-called friends: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.Source:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IH93u6-tVrnaTa9t52cDGEagZ-BkFx6i/view?usp=sharing