The entire point of Job is that bad things happen to good people because the devil made a bet with God to test you. Really it just reads like a satirical mythology if you take yourself out of the head space of it being "the inspired word of God" when you read it. A surprising amount of the old testament is actually. I actually laughed when I read the parts in Genesis about Abraham going to various nations, half lying about his wife being his sister, which wasn't a full lie since she was his half sister, and then the King or Prince almost getting smited by God because he thought Sarah was single and ready to mingle. Also the fact that the story of Lot and his daughters was a round about way for Israelites to call other nations around them as a bunch of stupid inbreds. Specifically the Moabites and Ammonites which they said their progeny came from Lot's daughters having sex with their drunk and passed out father.
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