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Essay on Divine Justice
Divine justice or Nemesis in Greek mythology is the personification and the vengeance of the gods, sometimes called the daughter of Night. She represented the righteous anger of the gods against the proud and haughty and against breakers of the law; she distributed good or bad fortune to all mortals. No one could escape her power.
Job (book of Bible), book of the Old Testament is accredited to Job, the most important character of the book. Biblical scholars have dated the book variously from Mosaic to postexilic times. The time presently favored by most scholars, however, is the later postexilic period, or from 500 to 250 BC. The author, who is unknown, is thought to have used an Israelite or Edomite folktale or epic dating perhaps from the beginning of the Israelite monarchy as a framework for his poetic dialogue. Later, another writer (or editor) added the speeches of a youthful fourth friend (chap. 32-37). The book is part of the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament, which includes Ecclesiastes and Proverbs.
The Book of Job consists of five different sections: a prose introduction (chap. 1-2); a series of dramatic discourses between Job and three of his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar (chap. 3-31); a discourse between Job and Elihu, a fourth friend (chap. 32-37); God's speeches from the whirlwind (38:1-42:6); and a prose epilogue (42:7-17). For many scholars and theologians, Job remains the most unsettling book of the Bible. How could God let a righteous man like Job, who is described as “perfect and upright,” suffer as he did? More fundamentally, how could a just God make an agreement with Satan to torment Job? One explanation is that the story of Job symbolizes the need for faith, even in extreme circumstances. This passage from the Prologue of the King James Version ends with Job's famous statement accepting God's will despite the numerous calamities that have befallen him. (Wayne (1983).....
