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![Gustavo Gutiérrez, in his investigation into the Book of Job On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent, posits that Job exemplifies disinterested religion — that is, a non-transactional faith that holds even when there is not a direct benefit or punishment. “[The author of the Book of Job] believes it to be possible, although he undoubtedly knew the difficulty that human suffering, one’s own and that of others, raises against authentic faith in God. Job, whom he makes the vehicle of his own experience, will be his spokesman.” (Gutierrez, n.d., 1) While I find this argument extremely compelling as a way to describe the entirety of Job and its role in both Judaism and Christianity, my own thesis does not necessarily have anything to do with theodicy.
Rather, I’d like to posit that there are at least two possible outcomes for Job after the events of the book. On the one hand, Job might follow the path of Qohelet in the eponymous book (called Ecclesiastes in Christian bibles), or he can follow the path of Jonah. That is, he can maintain his disinterested faith, or doubt can overtake him. He can become the wise, if perhaps jaded, author of a text that argues “there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to make merry.” (Qohelet 8:15, NRSV) Or he can become the reluctant prophet who says to God upon saving the stupid Ninevites that he is “angry enough to die.” (Jonah 4:9, NRSV)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bx3wfqvugktjtcokkjokeizu/bafkreiabrl7frg6mbff64m73k2oyl4mkaz6wyobrnav6ppihgcqgpc56fm@jpeg)