Everyone must face the reality that life is filled with countless inequities, senseless tragedies, and suffering beyond measure.  Good people suffer, babies are stricken with incurable diseases, and thousands of people can be wiped out by natural disaster in a moment.  Where is God when this happens?  If God is good, why does he let this happen?  If God is just why do good people suffer and seeming bad people thrive.  If God is all-powerful, why does he let this happen?  Does God care?  Would people worship God even if he did nothing to help them?  These questions have plagued people for centuries, even the authors of books of the Bible.  One book in particular, the book of Job, wrestles with them, but the conclusion that it reaches is not entirely clear.  This course is about Job and the issue of “theodicy,” or how can there be a just God in a world where so many bad things happen.  The class will read the book of Job closely for its response to the question, examine what other thinkers have concluded in light of their understanding of Job, and finally, make up our own minds about what the author may be saying and what we think is the solution to the problem.