Job System

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    Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
    —Bible: Hebrew Job 38:11.

    God speaking to Job of his laying of his “foundations of the earth.”

    Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)