Suffering without answers — and a faith that holds on anyway.
"For I know that my redeemer ______, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth."
Job may be the oldest story in the Bible — many scholars place it in the age of the patriarchs, before Moses ever wrote a word.
Job's friends sat with him in silence for seven days before anyone spoke. It was the best counseling they gave; the next thirty chapters, less so.
When God finally answers, He asks Job over sixty questions — about stars, storms, ostriches, and sea monsters — and never explains the suffering once.
The KJV gave English the phrase 'the skin of my teeth' and 'miserable comforters' — both straight from Job's complaints.