7(I cannot constrain myself and must make the following aside:) this fact is important in any attempt to understand the Book of Job in the Bible. The original intent of that book was undoubtedly to demonstrate the futility of attempts to understand the consequences of being just or unjust in this life only. Indeed some of Job’s comments seem to point rather strongly to the need to burst such constraints. Yet the author of the prologue and epilogue, while he put Job’s story in the larger context of the (Zoroastrian) gods, failed to expand the day of this life as Plato will do here.