Hardship packs the book of Job. Yet so do plenty and comfort — and I don’t mean only in the bookends of the story. While Job 1:1–5 depicts a materially blessed life, and Job 42:10–17 a materially rebuilt life, other instances of abundance hide between these passages. Where? In the lives of Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.
Implicit in the book of Job is the reality that G...