And Why Their Modern Successors Hate It When a Man Defends Himself

“Job is quite a different question. Job is unthinkable for the Greeks and their modern successors. Imagine an unyielding Oedipus who scoffs at fate, and especially at parricide and incest; who persists in treating oracles as sinister traps for scapegoats, which is what they unquestionably are. He would have the whole world against him — Hellenists, Heidegger, Freud and all the academics. He would have to be killed on the spot or put away in a psychiatric ward for insuperable repression” (Girad, Job, p. 46).