Levenson, 24-25

The failure of God is openly acknowledged; no smug faith here, no flight into an other-worldly ideal. But God is also reproached for his failure, told that it is neither inevitable nor excusable: no limited God here, no God stymied by invincible evil, no faithless resignation before the relentlessness of circumstance. It is between the Scylla of simplistic faith and Charybdis of stoic resignation that the lament runs its perilous course. (25, Creation and the Persistence of Evil)