es, eventually everyone shares in the first-hand experience. Death is the grim bond of brotherhood among all humans, connecting every era.
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
"Let the day perish wherein I was born, and let the night in which it was said,
Perhaps the greatest lamentation on the human condition, the most eloquent protest against unjust suffering, is found in The Book of Job in the Holy Bible. In this story, a retelling of a well-known ancient Egyptian and Sumerian myth within a Hebrew context, the God-fearing, in-all-ways-decent Job (a non-Jew, curiously) is suddenly stripped of his material possessions, his family and his health; he is made hideous with boils, a particularly painful condition; his status in the eyes of society is reduced to
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