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"The divine speeches in Job should be read as a signal demonstration of God's good grace that moves Job to disavow the dust and ashes to which he had felt himself reduced and reenter life in the awareness that the chaotic element that exists within the world--[Behemoth and Leviathan]--remains indisputably there but is no longer something to be feared, for grace remains" (129)

"McCarthy also shows up for what it is the easy and trite theologizing and facile posturing that so often characterize our attempts to engage with those who are suffering. When we read Job, none of us like to think that we are Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar . . . But McCarthy helps us to see how easily we take on the mantle of comforter, scandalized by the sheer rawness of the emotions on display." (48-9)

"Job is not a 'book about suffering,' but a 'book about living.' Similarly, McCarthy's novels are not about human depravity and human life gone bad, but about how to live in a world in which such depravity roams about." (18)

""He believed in a boundless God without centre or circumference. By this very formlessness he'd sought to make God manageable,' and in doing so 'had ceded all terrain'" (quoting The Crossing on p. 34).