Many men wish to confine His creation to their own mental cages.

I do not agree that Job is a work of fiction. There was an ancient man named Job. Events from his life were re-written and poetically embellished into a new story that tells the future. Think traditional histories meet Aesop's Fables meets Jehovah's long-term plans, and that is a half-decent way to describe the purpose of the Bible. The writers were seized upon by the Holy Spirit, and driven to write the words they produced. None of it was the mere product of a human mind--a greater mind was in those men moving them exactly how to manifest the future on scrolls and parchments.

God's concern is not over teaching history. His concern is the culmination of history, the end of history and the new beginning of a new history described far in advance--showing the pattern of a new reality for man to come in the far distant future. The Book of Job, like the Book of Jonah, is prophecy about the coming of Jesus of Nazareth and the birth of a new creation flowing out from the Nazarene.

In fact, the entire Old Testament is about Jesus of Nazareth:

"And the Father himself, which hath sent me, HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his WORD abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: AND THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME."

The Old Testament books were not written to instruct us in history. They were written to identify the Son of Man who would come into the world and spread the knowledge of the Father's love abroad into all the nations. Even though there are records of ancient historical people in those books, the way they are presented is so as to tell us who those people foreshadow and symbolize--the man Jesus Christ and the new kingdom he would establish for the ages ahead.

Revelation was dictated to a man named John on the Isle of Patmos. John had visions and he was told what to write in the visions. The book of Genesis was written in the same way. It was visions given to Moses, telling him what to write. The Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation are the exact same story shown in different idioms of their respective ages.

Genesis uses a pastiche of older ancestral histories organized like lego blocks to build the future God has planned. So although based loosely upon real ancestral histories, Genesis is not meant to be read literally or as a history. It is meant to be read to foretell a far distant future--the day and age that we currently inhabit.

Revelation tells roughly the same plan but is more focused on the time nearer Christ's ministry. Revelation uses more direct symbols for the future as opposed to the Genesis use of ancestral totem patchworked as a future mosaic.

Then of course both Christ and the Father state plainly that they teach in parables.