Scholars and their theories
Stephen Mitchell- “Job is a man of patience.We are far more likely to see the book as a theological treatise on human suffering, especially the innocent variety.”
Observed that William Blake, who created a series of engravings on Job, “is still the only interpreter to understand that the theme of this book is spiritual transformation”. Perhaps Blake is among the few to see in Job, what is involved in coming to live before the only God we cannot construct.
Sees the flawlessness of Jobs life as a depiction of Job as the ‘perfect moral businessman’, who knows how to succeed at the reward game, with life and with God.
“All this bewilderment and outrage couldn’t be so intense if Job didn’t truly love God. He senses that in spite of appearances there is somewhere, an ultimate justice, but he doesn’t know where. He is like a nobler Othello who has been brought conclusive evidence that his wife has betrayed him:his honesty won’t allow him to disbelieve it, but his love won’t allow him to believe it.
The voice is saying “What is all this foolish chatter about good and evil...about battles between a hero-God and some cosmic opponent? Don’t you understand that there is no one else in here?”

David Robertson-Draws our attention to Job’s speech in chapter 9, in which Job predicts what would happen if he summoned God to a face-to-face encounter. “If it is a contest of strength,behold him”-Job.
When God finally does appear, Job’s prediction comes true “So God’s rhetoric (in chapters 38-41) because Job has warned us against it, convinces us that he is a charlatan God, one who has the power and skill of God , but is a fake at the truly divine task of governing with justice and love”.
Modern Readers- Will miss the comic dimension unless they are willing to accept the deeply stylized character of the events. They are, to borrow Mitchell’s term -