1 D. CLINES, "Why is Therea Book of Job, and What Does it Do to You if You Read it?", The Book of Job(ed. W.A.M. BEUKEN) (Leuven 1994) 2-20. No further pane numbers will be given to quotesfrom this relatively short essay.
2 A bizarreclaim is made that commentators on the Book of Job are biased because they "are allmale"! The question is not asked why are there no female commentators on Job.
3 Job's wife isobviously a woman of independent thinking and there is no evidence she was coerced intounwanted pregnancies.