I have figured out the Book of Job

The Book of Job bothers us because we don't know how to take the words of Job's friends and Job himself. Are their words the word of God? Are they the confused words of man? If the latter isn't it a big waste of time? 

One thing that might confuse is Job is the first of the books of wisdom, and we are coming straight from the historical books when we encounter it (if we're making a complete reading). So we are in the state of mind of reading the historical books, and you can't read Job like that. Whether he was real or not is not the question. Job is drama. Real life drama or just drama, it's drama. 

The key is dramatic irony. Job is bookended by the actual word of God. God at the end bringing His fist down is the actual word of God. God at the beginning talking with Satan is the actual word of God. All the dialogues in the middle part are the words of fallen man.

Dramatic irony is set up when the reader knows something the characters in the drama don't know. *We know God has given Satan permission to test Job. Job and his friends don't know that.*

Therefore we, the reader, have a sort of perspective of God when reading the dialogues of Job and his friends. 

So with that as the set-up, we are now able to view fallen man - ourselves - objectively. *This* is the wisdom aspect of the Book of Job.