{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.02320185614849188, 'fraction_numerical': 0.010440835266821345, 'mean_word_length': 4.791946308724833, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Job as dispossessed

This article is a reworking of a paper that was originally presented at the Society of Biblical Literature meetings held in New Orleans in fall 2009, four years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. To this day, twelve years later, portions of the city have not been restored, and numerous homes have not been rebuilt. Exactly ten years after Katrina, J. David Rogers, lead author of a new report in the official journal of the World Water Council, concluded that the flooding during Katrina “could have been prevented had the corps retained an external review board to double-check its flood-wall designs.”1 The book of Job struggles with the question, “Why do the innocent suffer?” This article explores a new reading of Job that points to our unrealized participation in evil systems that oppress the disenfranchised.