“From this book above all others in scripture, we learn that the person in pain is a theologian of unique authority,” wrote Old Testament scholar Ellen Davis in her marvelous book titled Getting Involved with God. “The one who complains to God, pleads with God, rails at God, does not let God off the hook for a minute—she is at last admitted to a mystery. She passes through a door that only pain will open, and is thus qualified to speak of God in a way that others, whom we generally call more fortunate, cannot speak.”2
