This is a careful and learned translation, with the courage to make necessary re-arrangements of text for good sense. Job comes through as a man of integrity beset by horrors he cannot understand, at the hands of an obtuse god who never had good cause to abuse him and who never lets up until it doesn't matter. This is the human condition at its most wretched.
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