6.2. Psalms and Job
"Walter Bruggemann (Message of the Psalms) says that the psalms can pretty much fit into three categories: • Orientation • Disorientation • New Orientation.” The early church read many of the Psalms as if Jesus was the speaker. The cursing Psalms are hard for us to deal with.
Interpreting the Imprecatory Psalms. "There is nothing about the Imprecatory psalms’ desire for vengeance that we could find in Jesus, but the problem of victimizing is pronounced in both. Again, we are not rejecting parts of the Bible; we are simply insisting that they be interpreted within the framework given by Jesus and the apostolic church. The corollary between Jesus and the psalms is not to be found in their theologies, but in the description they give of the victim scapegoating mechanism. The anthropological insight of the victim is why Jesus turned to the Psalter.”
The Book of Job. Concentrating on the dialogs, Job is a victim of human oppression and he speaks with the voice of the victim. His friends are trying to to get him to accept his fate and, in effect, be a scapegoat.
Quotes from Hardin, Michael (2013-09-26). The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity With Jesus, 2nd Edition Revised and Expanded (Kindle Locations 4995-4998). JDL Press. Kindle Edition.