The Psalms do not, that is, offer us an answer for “the problem of evil.” But they are clear where the answer is not to be found. It is not to be found where the pantheist wants to find it, suggesting that “evil” is merely a matter of our perception and that the world just is the way it is and we should get used to it. Nor is it to be found where the dualist wants to find it, suggesting that the whole of “matter” (and time and space as well) is bad, evil, dangerous, seductive and that we should find ways of escaping it all in a detached spirituality in the present and in a distant nonmaterial
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