Answer to Job （答约伯）

OfallthebooksoftheBiblefewhavehadmoreresonanceformodernreadersthantheBookofJob.Foraworldthathaswitnessedgreathorrors,Job'scriesofdespairandincomprehensionarealltoorecognizable.ThevisionarypsychotherapistCarlGustavJungunderstoodthisandrespondedwiththisbook,inwhichhesethimselfface-to-facewith"theunvarnishedspectacleofdivinesavageryandruthlessness".Jungperceivedinthehiddenrecessesofthehumanpsychethecauseofacrisisthatplaguesmodernhumanityandleavestheindividual,likeJob,isolatedandbewilderedinthefaceofimpenetrablefortune.Bycorrelatingthetranscendentalwiththeunconscious,Jung,writingnotasabiblicalscholarbut"asalaymanandphysicianwhohasbeenprivilegedtoseedeeplyintothepsychiclifeofmanypeople",offersawayforeveryreadertocometotermswiththedivinedarknesswhichconfrontseachindividual.