Said to be the oldest book written in the Bible. It was always my mom's favorite book.
Literary Qualities
Job is a drama expressed in poetry and a prose narrative framework. It poses the question, "Why do the righteous suffer?" then presents character speeches as debates after the answer. It is rife with conflict between Job and his neighbors and God.
Job is a hero's quest for understanding and for union with God. A second point of unity is the obtuseness of the friends' wrongheadedness, whose repetitious speeches serve as a static background against which we can measure the intellectual and spiritual growth of Job. A third element is irony. The friends represent the irony of orthodoxy--of belief in principles that are generally true but that do not fit the situation of Job. Balancing this is the irony of rebellion against God, as we observe Job make charges against God that we know from the prologue to be untrue.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. The Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken, Page 142-143)