The Book of Job: philosopher's edition

It is the year 0001 P.A. In your travels, you come across an ancient scroll. Brushing off the dust, you see its name: The Tanakh.

You hope it may be wise, or at least helping and friendly. Upon reading this old text you immediately call your philosophy friends. Turns out they've read it too! And so it is decided: meet and let's discuss The Book of Job from the wisdom writings of the Hebrew Bible.

Whether they're inspired by it, or driven to revolt, Western philosophers are indebted to Judaism. But what does the Old Testament actually say?
This is part of a series in which we attempt cooperative readings of religious writings with fresh eyes. We have previously read Genesis, Ecclesiastes, Corinthians, and The Gospels, and it was very successful in terms of opening a space for insights coming from diverse and honest perspectives. Let's keep it going.

Required reading: The Book of Job.

I highly recommend this audiobook production from The Bible Experience: Inspired By featuring Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Samuel L. Jackson and others. (NIV Translation). Whoever played Elihu deserves an award.

The following is from Kierkegaard's Repetition:
November 15:
My Silent Confident: If I did not have Job! It is impossible to describe all the shades of meaning and how manifold the meaning is that he has for me. I do not read him as one reads another book, with the eyes, but I lay the book , as it were, on my heart and read it with the eyes of the heart, in a clairvoyance interpreting the specific points in the most diverse ways. Just as the child puts his schoolbook under his pillow to sure he has not forgotten his lesson when he makes up in the morning, so I take the book to bed with me at night. Every word by him is food and clothing and healing for my wretched soul. Now a word by him arouses me from my lethargy and awakens new relentlessness; now it clams the sterile raging within me, stops the dreadfulness in the mute nausea of my passion..
Have you really read Job? Read him, read him again and again. I do not even have the heart to write one single outcry from him in a letter to you, even though I find my joy in transcribing over and over everything he has said, sometimes is Danish script and sometimes in Latin script, sometimes in one format and sometimes in another. Every transcription of this kind is laid upon my sick heart as God's-hand-plaster.­­ Indeed, on whom did God lay his hand as on Job! But quote him - that I cannot do. That would be wanting to put on my own pittance, wanting to make his words my own in the presence of another. When I am alone, I do it, appropriate everything, but as soon as anyone comes, I know very well what a young man is supposed to do when the elderly are speaking.