The Book of Job is one of three books in the Hebrew Bible whose genre is described as wisdom literature.1 Certainly the Book of Job satisfies the literary conventions that qualify a biblical book as such status. 2 Yet Job can be associated with wisdom in a much more literal sense. The Book of Job attempts to address a problematic question confronting suffering humanity: Why do bad things happen to good people? The variety and vehemence of contemporary commentators' responses to this chapter of the Bible testify to the continuing relevance of the wisdom of the Book of Job thousands of years after its writing. Even if the commentators examined here reach different and sometimes conflicting conclusions after reading the story of the "Arab saint"3, no one remains indifferent. The first commentator taken into consideration is Martin Buber in an extract from his Darko shel miqra'4. Buber draws an appropriate parallel between the Book of Job and the proceedings in a court of law, seeing God as judge and Job as accuser. In Buber's legal parallel, Job demands what in an earthly court would amount to due process, or due process. Yet, even as Buber gives the legitimacy of a tribunal to Job's complaints, Buber suggests that Job knew that his appeal had been "suppressed from the beginning."5 Buber quotes Job: "Though I am right, my mouth will condemn! "6 Highlighting the rightness of Job's statements and the non-existent possibility of a divine decision in favor of Job, Buber highlights how human justice and divine justice diverge. This difference is further highlighted by the discussion of how Job is made to suffer hinnam, or gratuitously, from both God's and Job's perspectives.7 Rather than condemn... middle of paper... Sterton, GK. "Introduction to the Book of Job." The Hebrew Bible in literary criticism. Ed. and comp. Alex Preminger and Edward L. Greenstein. New York: Ungar, 1986. 449-50.Frick, Frank S.. A Journey Through the Hebrew Scriptures. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995. Hello, Tony and Patrick Walters. Einstein's mirror. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.Jung, C.G.. Response to Job. The Hebrew Bible in literary criticism. Ed. and comp. Alex Preminger and Edward L. Greenstein. New York: Ungar, 1986. 454-5.Kroll, Paul. “Job's trial”. Grace Communion: International. Grace Communion International, 2013. 26 February 2015.René de Chateaubriand, François. The beauties of Christianity. The Hebrew Bible in literary criticism. Ed. and comp. Alex Preminger and Edward L. Greenstein. New York: Hungary, 1986. 445.