The book of Job gives us a clear example of what it looks like to give simple, logical reasoning in the face of utter despair. This example personified by Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, and Elihu should be avoided as a response to those suffering around us. We see Job wrestling in truth with God throughout the narrative and we see God honoring and responding to Job's authenticity. As William Safire writes in The First Dissident:
"If the book of Job reaches across two and a half millenia to teach anything to men and women who consider themselves normal, decent human beings, it is this: Human beings are sure to wander in ignorance and to fall into error, and it is better - more righteous in the eyes of God - for them to react by questioning rather than accepting. Confronted with inexplicable injustice, it is better to be irate than resigned."
