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Roger's topic was something about Calvin's interpretation of Job. I'm only going to mention a few side issues.

The Job narrative adds some nuance to the view of man as the centre of all creation (Genesis 1-2). In Job we read that God "cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it" (38:25-26). God's care for the earth, even when people are absent, should humble us.

The creatures called Leviathan and Behemoth (40:15-34) show the world to be chaotic and evil. It is partly because this is a crazy, complex world that God acts with unfathomable wisdom.

The book of Job presents three reasons why we cannot understand (all of) God's will. The first is our creatureliness (above); the second is because God hides his will; and the third, because we are sinful (we are, but Job isn't).