This is the second of a three-part conversation on the Book of Job between myself, John Collins,

and Tim Mackie, where co-founders of the Bible project, and we're putting together a short

animation on the Book of Job, and this is our conversation leading up to that script.

If you haven't listened to Part 1, it'd be helpful to do that.

In Part 1, we talked about the main question that the Book of Job is trying to answer.

Question in the Book of Job is, if God is just, does that mean that the universe ought

always to be run according to the principle of strict, just compensation?

In this way, the Book of Job is a perfect thought experiment for exploring this question.

Job has done nothing to deserve the suffering that's being inflicted on him.

He's maintained his integrity, even though you incited me against him to ruin him for no reason.

But even though Job doesn't deserve this, he's still human, and he reacts to the suffering

in a myriad of different ways. Sometimes trusting and praising God, other times accusing God of

being cruel and untrustworthy, reckless, unfair, and corrupt. It's just on an emotional rollercoaster.

It's a beautiful portrayal of the emotional intensity of hardship and suffering.

We're going to dive deeper into the Book of Job. We're going to talk about the strange,

heavenly scene that opens up the book where God is in heaven making decisions with angels,

and it's kind of confusing. We'll talk about how Job responds, and then the long intervention

that his friends have with Job, and what we need to learn from all of this.

Here's part two of our conversation. Here we go.

So what does Job's name have a meaning in Hebrew?

Good up. I don't think it does because I'm pretty sure it's not a Hebrew name.

Yeah, so Job, in Hebrew you say, Yov. It's traditional root derivation in Jewish interpretation

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