Comments on Job 5-8

Yesterday I received a call from a friend who lost a spouse less than a year ago. The pain and agony that I heard in his voice gave a new dimension to my reading of Job. Job was tormented in body and soul. Unrelenting grief. Excruciating pain. Blinding confusion. He pours out his broken heart before the Lord and "godly friends" are quick to shush him or correct his theology. Doesn't Job know that the "the righteous don't suffer, they only prosper." Heard that anywhere lately?