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Originally Posted by awareness
I did not mis-speak. I just have gotten there yet..
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I have not gone into detail on my take on this book, I have only given an overview. I think if anyone is a fiction writer this book should be one of your reference books along with The Elements of Style. Job provides you with the elements of human suffering. Reading of all the references in the NT to Job, you have to be impressed. I would much rather get the details of these experiences second hand through Job than to have to get these experiences first hand. What is interesting to me is that the loss of all he owned and the loss of his family and the loss of his health were not the only sufferings. Clearly, the assumption by his friends that these evils occurred to him because he had sinned was another suffering.
I say this because I don't want to limit anyone's understanding of the book. I can definitely see someone wanting to turn this book into a comedy. That is fine. But portraying God as a "Buffoon"? Now if you want to say you see God as a "Columbo" like character, I would have no issue with that. Why not?
Personally, I found the original Get Smart theme hilarious but extremely difficult to pull off. The idea is you have this character who is head and shoulders above everyone else, yet he appears to be a total buffoon, so that adds to the comedy that everyone treats this bumbling fool as a genius, yet in hindsight his comedy of errors actually leads to the only way in which you could succeed. It works if during the entire episode you feel he is a bumbling fool being saved by 99 but then in the end you realize "hey, if he didn't make those errors this, and this and this would never have happened." There has to be a double take, is this guy a fool or a genius?
So, if you mean that Job portrays God as a character similar to Columbo or Get Smart, I could go with that as well.
But I don't see unqualified "buffoon".