Night and Job

In the Novel Night we see similar themes to those that the book of Job showed. God as the Bible present’s him was against all of those who weren’t with him.  If you didn’t believe in God it was only a matter of time that you were smote. Job also questions the Judgment and the Justice of the Lord when he allowed Satan to do evil on to Job using the hand of God. We also see that Job was silent all during his punishments and accepted them with passivity.

How does this reflect in the novel? Well it’s simple because Job could be the Jews and God could be Hitler. The Jews accepted all that happened to them with passivity and they went in to the oven almost without questioning or any sort of revolt. They questioned the Judgment of the Lord for they didn’t understand why was it that God would punish them in such a horrible way without them doing anything. They didn’t understand why God remained silent after seeing that his people were being killed by the German and that apparently no one cared. Finally you can say Hitler decided to play God with everyone. He decided which people could live and who could die. He decided how they would die and he thought that was good. He believed to know what was good and evil.

Finally I would like to say that the fact Jews didn’t Question the existence of God like Job was very interesting. Because while seeing such silence in a supposedly good being makes it a real challenge to believe in him. Specially because in the bible there have always been some sort of divine interventions. Never has God stayed silent in a war or in any place where a great deal of people were killed. This was a moment where faith was truly put to test and like Job they were able to pass it but at a Huge cost.