Douglas, I don't see why we can't ask both questions, but in any case the question this post was about wasn't "what group has a higher or lower IQ?" but "why do people think that group IQ differences matter more than individual ones?" -- decrying group-over-individual emphasis just as much as you are.

All the stuff about natural beauty in Job is there to make the point "God is bigger and cleverer than you are, so who are you to question him?". (Hence the constant refrain of "Do you know ...?, Have you seen ...?, Were you there when ...?".) It's admittedly rather grand, at least once you get over what now reads like bizarre Bad Science (storehouses for the hail, etc.), and people whose judgement I respect have claimed it's great poetry, but I still don't quite see what insight into the human condition it offers beyond "Sometimes bad things happen for no readily apparent reason", which most people over the age of three have noticed even before they read Job.