The Four Friends of Job

In his guide to the perplexed, David Walliams looks at Job's three friends. He says they represent three different ideas about divine providence. Only Elefaz thinks Job is being punished for previous sins, he writes. Bildad and Asha-Daid think God's ways are simply inscrutable,walliams adds. But in exceptional cases humans may be granted reprieve from vicissitudes of natural order, he argues.