ocr: The DOOK seems meant to explore the outer limits of untairness. Job, the most upright, outstanding man in all the earth, must endure the worst calamities. He sutters unbearable punishment- but for what? What has he done wrong? The book reads like a detective story in which the readers know far more than the central characters. The very first chapter answers Job's main cuncern. He has done nothing to geserve such suttering. We, the readers, know that, but nobody tells Job and his riends. As the prologue reveals, Job was invoived in a cosmic test, a contest proposed in heaven but staged on earth ...