The Book of Job

Job is a good and prosperous man, possible the best man of his time. Then, without warning, all that he has worked for is stripped from him in a sudden series of terrible disasters. Three friends come to visit, supposedly to comfort him. But their accusations that Job must somehow have brought these calamities upon himself spark a debate.

As the four men dispute, in public, the nature of Job's suffering they delve into ancient questions about the nature of man's relationship to the Almighty,...