n Lecture 2: The Trial of Friendship, we journey through Job’s second trial—this time, not from the heavens, but from the mouths of his friends. As Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar confront Job with cold retributive theology and no compassion, Job laments, perseveres, and cries out for a mediator between himself and God. This lecture examines how the accuser’s voice resonates through the pious platitudes of Job’s companions and how Job, in his radical fidelity and suffering, foreshadows Christ himself. Faith without reward. Worship in ruin. A suffering soul becomes a liturgy.