The Book of Job places strong emphasis on the series of questions Job ponders about God in his state of existential despair, and through these questions, although he does not receive of concrete response, he reaches a new vision. Job goes through a progressive chain from accepting God's actions to questioning them and finally to understanding. Wisdom, in the general sense, is a person's ability to understand, through the process of acquiring exceptional insight and judgment, uncertain and confusing matters. In particular, the Book of Job addresses questions of existence that oppose the very fundamental principle of retributivism which consequently baffles Job. By recognizing his lack of knowledge and questioning his friends' assumptions about God instead of blindly accepting a simple retributive view of Him, Job manages, paradoxically, to gain a sense of wisdom by simply realizing what he does not don't know. Questioning God's actions is Job's first step in gaining wisdom. Job illustrates the danger of living in ignorance, without asking questions, being completely unprepared for the tragedies that befall him. Furthermore, Job changes his character when he moves from blindly accepting God's actions to questioning his motives and reasons. Job maintained a sinless life and even God commends Job by saying, “Have you thought of my servant Job? You will not find anyone like him on earth, a man of integrity and uprightness, who fears God and opposes evil” (Job, Prologue: 8-10). Clearly, Job has demonstrated his piety before God and has no reason to question his motives because up to this point everything is proceeding according to the retributive rubric; he is sinless and thus he remains impervious to the perplexities of life through deep insight and proper judgment. After initially blindly accepting God's actions, Job illustrates the danger of living in ignorance. It is helpful to recognize this ignorance in order to understand why God's ways are incomprehensible and, through Job's friends, there is a refuted idea of ​​a simple retributive rubric under which God operates; furthermore, the views describe God's complex and rather incommensurable system. Job remains in a state of existential despair and ultimately realizes that he cannot understand God in any way, while his friends falsely assume knowledge, in which God later rebukes them. Questioning is an important concept that later leads to greater wisdom, just as it did for Job, because he who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask questions remains forever a fool.