There is a long list of ways things can go wrong in this life. None of us will go through all of them, but all of us will go through some of them. And when we do, one name that often comes to mind is Job, whose ancient story, in the Bible book that bears his name, is largely about living into, through, and beyond the hardest and worst that life can bring. The simple words that are gathered in this small book are hopeful reflections on that quiet question: “How do we go on when we cannot go on?” Which is what the words huddled here are: tries at the truth, earnest efforts, certain to fail.