Job scrapes for answers (Job 1:1, 2:1-10)
It is as if every person who asks why bad things happen to good people takes a potsherd and starts scraping.
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The Trial of God, Elie Wiesel’s masterly and moving play on the problem of evil, is set in a Ukrainian village in the year 1649, in the aftermath of a pogrom.
