
Job's quest for sense
Chapter 14 in God of Sense is entitled, "The Sense of the Voice from the Whirlwind." God speaks to Job after (1) the friends have poured out venom on him and (2) told him that God will not speak and Job should not want God to speak. Interpreters disagree about the meaning of God's speech. Does God subject Job to an instance of "cosmic bullying." Does God shut him up? Does God give him an esthetic answer to a moral and existential question? Does God tell him that everything in