My favourite book in the Bible is Ecclesiastes, which takes a Nietzsche-esque stance that nothing we do matters, and life is terribly unfair. Bad things happen to good people and vice versa, so simply eat, drink, and be merry. It comes right after Proverbs, which is the classic book everyone quotes from about how doing good things leads to good things. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

There’s a highly underrated Coen Brothers movie called “A Serious Man” that lives somewhere in between Ecclesiastes and Job. A story about a guy who lives in this moral gray zone and just kinda has good and bad things happen to him. All the while, he’s struggling for meaning and direction, in a community of very religious Jews who have nothing useful to say.

If you enjoy very dry humor, it’s a lot of fun.