The suffering of Job simply does not add up for his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar.
Despite what they know of Job from their own experience, their brains simply cannot compute that he might be innocent.
Even when Job points out the very obvious fact that God allows many evil people to thrive, his friends maintain their unswervable position that his suffering has been brought on himself by some terrible misdeed.
And so it goes on, with readers knowing what they don't - that Job is innocent and that God and the Devil are playing games.

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield
Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music
Cover art by Lisa Goff

Job is utterly bewildered.
His friends are convinced that he has done something dreadful to warrant so much suffering.
He knows that he hasn't, and simply wants a hearing with God.
This opens a can of worms.
Is Job, a mere human, claiming that God has made a mistake?
Listeners feel especially smug knowing that all parties are wrong.
Job hasn't sinned, at least no more than the average person.
And God hasn't made a mistake, he's simply playing a game.
Schadenfreude is set to high as Job's friends set themselves up for a catastrophic fall.
But will Job himself be vindicated?
First he has to stay alive, and hear yet more godly wisdom from friends who prove to be not quite as wise as they think.


Written and produced by Chas Bayfield
Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music
Cover art by Lisa Goff

A man sits in rags while his woulds fester.
Three of his friends sit with him, explaining to him why he is suffering.
It is crystal clear to them: his suffering is a punishment from God, and because the suffering is severe, so must be the sin that he is being punished for.
What none of tyhem know is that Job is the subject of a game that is being played in the heavenly realm by God and the Devil.
His suffering is to prove to the Devil that nothing will make Job lose his faith in God.
Like three men trying to solve a puzzle without employing any lateral thinking, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar are never going to come close to figuring out what is going on.
Nor though is Job, who suffers not only physical discomfort but the endless rebukes of three men who believe they have all the answers.

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield
Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music
Cover art by Lisa Goff