The Book of Job, likely composed between the seventh and fifth centuries BCE, presents the story of a righteous man stripped of everything — wealth, family, health — who then demands an explanation from God. His friends insist the suffering must be deserved; Job insists it is not. What makes the book theologically unusual is what it refuses to do: it offers no clean resolution. God answers from the whirlwind with a speech about the scope of creation, but does not explain the suffering. That refusal has made Job indispensable to every tradition that takes innocent suffering seriously. The selection here focuses on the divine speeches — God’s response to Job’s demand for an answer.