Job turns from his friends, who in any case are more invested in defending God than they are in defending him. He will not heed their pious counsel, any more than he will follow his wife’s advice to curse God and die. Job will deal with God or he will deal with no one. If God will not answer him, then he will fill the air with his own furious poetry. This is how faith looks, sometimes: a blunt refusal to stop speaking into the divine silence.
