This work illuminates the relationship between the aesthetic forms of Job and the claims made by its various characters. It makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book that rejects its dismantling in historical criticism and the flattening of the text. Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book that rejects its dismantling in historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterises many final form readings. Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.