The Standard Formula (Cycle 1)

I need someone to listen to me and check my ideology, my core assumptions about life that I may not even know I have and hold… AND THAT is what we have here in the Book of Jōb. It’s a long-form discussion and from it emerge the beliefs, the intellectual commitments and ideologies of the participants.

In the course of this poetic conversation, stretching over some 40 chapters, the assumptions of the speakers and listeners emerge. I’d like to look at ONE such assumption I’m going to call the “Standard Formula”. Let’s look at:
1) The Standard Stated
2) The Standard Fulfilled
3) The Standard Re-Stated