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Job is the drama of our times written in minuscule; it acts well in modern dress. Like Hamlet, Faust and Everyman, it is at home in the universe, seeing that it too deals with an eternal theme, Love against Death. Psychologic advantages of today have made possible a reasoned explanation of what Job must mean for our times. It offers interpretation (1100 A.D. saw some earlier attempt) for the urgent message of its theme, that only requires translation into the modern idiom to give it renewed appeal and cogency. It needs this restatement because of its pertinency. For today these are some of its relentless questionings.
Job asks What is the origin of all Guilt? What is the place of insanity, incest, injustice in the world and against whom are they directed? What is the price of the insatiable love of life that offsets these? What must triumph over wrong, hate and futility? What psychological forces can be brought to bear in the cosmic drama, the world drama, and the finite drama of the individual psyche, to find resolution, once and for all, for the Nuclear Complex that dogs the footsteps of civilized men?
Job is the first dialogue, or psycho-drama, that successfully verbalizes the neurotic conflict of Damnation (nowadays Castration) that has to be thought over, fought over, afresh with every age and every individual. It needs to be varbalized before it can be resolved. The success of this answer to the Riddle of the psychic Universe is set within the