THE IMPATIENCE OF JOB: DISSENT, STIFF-NECKED INTEGRITY, AND SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT Far from recommending long-suffering endurance and humble submission “to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon” us, the Book of Job argues forcefully for an uncompromising, even defiant, spiritual integrity, an authenticity willing to risk even enmity with God, or at least with the God of conventional religion. Only by owning our full selves, our fears, our resentments, our criticisms of God and his spokesmen, as well as our faith and our hope, can we move with Job past knowing God’s name to seeing his face.

Kim McCall, Alan C. Tull