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@ -157,3 +157,13 @@ It's the God who responds who bears the most gravitas in this dialogue. It is th
This, then, becomes a performance. It's a moral stage-play put on for our benefits to better understand the intersection of pain and faith. This, then, becomes a performance. It's a moral stage-play put on for our benefits to better understand the intersection of pain and faith.
But so, too, is interested faith a performance. "If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue," Chesterton cautions Job's friends. "Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good." \parencite{intro-to-job} But so, too, is interested faith a performance. "If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue," Chesterton cautions Job's friends. "Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good." \parencite{intro-to-job}
Job replies simply out of awe. Fear, yes, for the sight of God is truly fearsome, but the overriding emotion to be found here is awe. It is the beauty right at the margin of the terrifying. "And we marvel at it so because it holds back in serene disdain / and does not destroy us," as Rilke has it. \parencite[11]{duino} He says in response:
> "Who is this obscuring council without knowledge"
> \vin Therefore I told but did not understand,
> \vin \vin wonders beyond me that I did not know.
>
> (Job 42:3, Alter)
"Therefore do I recant, and I repent in dust and ashes," he says, and we may picture Job bowing his head, his thoughts swirling violently around this knowledge that has been imparted to him. It is a glimpse of everything, the barest whiff of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That can be interpreted, after all, a merism: by offering the opposites of good and evil, everything that is between them is specified. All of the gray areas are in that knowledge, but not just those; God, with his omniscience, is far more beholden to some Blue/Orange morality than anything else. He has "a moral framework that is so utterly alien and foreign to human experience that we can't peg them as "good" or "evil"." \parencite{blueorange} Job, for a brief moment, smells blue, hears orange, and is able to maintain his faith in the face of it all.