Job and the Devil

Comfort and hope! This is the message of Job spoken to countless persons in distress for several millennia. Because the book is so well crafted, so powerful and sensitive theologically, and so down-to-earth in its practical and experimental dimensions, it has drawn considerable attention not only from Bible commentators but also from numerous other writers in the fields of religion, philosophy, and literature. 

Why, then, this book about Job? Job and the Devil is significant due to the authors’ ability to elucidate the story of Job with exceptional clarity and charm and to illuminate a most vital part of the drama of Job that is almost invariably overlooked by commentators. 

This book gives special recognition to the identities of the two great forces in the “behind the scenes” power play and the knowledge of which of them ultimately has charge of earth’s affairs.