[July 2006 journal entry]
I can imagine conversations prior, to the story/play prologue tragedies, between Job and his three close friends in which they had made unconditional promises of loyalty to each other. And I can imagine the public comments Job and his three close friends had made re ‘friendship’. The first words from the ‘scrapheap’ Job to his three close friends (ch. 3) abruptly begin to test their friendships down into the root. What had the ‘scrapheap’ Job’s three close friends inferred from observing him in silence for days? Are they already feeling the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm wobble/buckle underneath them?
I can imagine conversations prior, to the story/play prologue tragedies, between Job and his three close friends in which they had made unconditional promises of loyalty to each other. And I can imagine the public comments Job and his three close friends had made re ‘friendship’. The first words from the ‘scrapheap’ Job to his three close friends (ch. 3) abruptly begin to test their friendships down into the root. What had the ‘scrapheap’ Job’s three close friends inferred from observing him in silence for days? Are they already feeling the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm wobble/buckle underneath them?
