I appreciate what you say-I do have my own journey with the book of Job, after all.

But I wanted this piece to be about how the 'scholarly,brainy bits' can actually touch one's life. In my youth, I would ask my mother difficult questions she would not be able to answer. ('Why should children who were never baptised end up in a place that is neither heaven nor hell but some kind of limbo?' ) The excavation of truth in theology and scholarship, that need to know, it has and still does 'fuel my life'.

I do like, however, that you astutely point out the need for emotional honesty (I have other stories where I speak to that primal need) and I think it's great you want to re-read Job.