Job asserts that it is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked, expressing the conviction that divine action is indiscriminate and unjust. The assertion that God treats the righteous and wicked alike constitutes the fundamental theodicean problem: if morality makes no difference, then moral behavior is meaningless. Job's despair reflects the collapse of moral meaning.

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