Given the book is an adaptation of the earlier dialogues on suffering, The Babylonian Theodicy, it “only making sense” given Judaism’s portrayal of Yahweh really isn’t the case.

The dialogues are about how there is no knowable rhyme or reason to suffering.

If anything, the Job version is worse than the original as they felt the need to add a preamble to set the stage, which is also plagiarized from earlier. In this case, bearing a close resemblance to the beginning of the Canaanite A Tale of Aqhat where Anat goes to El to petition killing the son of Danel the protagonist who finds out his son is dead at the same time he finds out his livelihood is ruined and tears his clothes in mourning.

So the Biblical story is basically two earlier stories stitched together, but so poorly that during the monotheistic reform they just change the supernatural goddess petitioning the chief of the pantheon to be an unmanned adversary (‘Satan’), an editorial change that caused quite a lot of fanfiction down the road.

Though my favorite aspect of the story is that while the author certainly intended that Job’s suffering was because he was persecuted by Satan (the meaning of ‘Job’ in Hebrew), arguably his greatest source of suffering was that the way he was conducting his life was with an expectation of a reward, and when that reward was lost he had an existential crisis because he had been so ‘good’ all his life. So it’s a bit ironic that though entirely unrelated etymology his name went from meaning ‘persecuted’ in Hebrew to “doing a task with the expectation of a reward” in English today.