Out of the tension of their situation comes the decision to carry out a trial in which God is charged with breach of contract. Since God made a covenant with his people, they argue, and since that covenant included many promises that, as his chosen nation, Israel would survive under his protection, why then is the history of the Jewish people marked with destruction and suffering? Surely their slavery, their exile and the six million dead of the Final Solution all prove that God is guilty of going back on his word.