with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief (Job 16:4–5).” Since Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar persist in attributing the cause of the calamity to something Job must have done, they show the inability of human CRW to resolve the calamity of Job. They discredit the life of Job (which life the Lord had decreed “upright and blameless”) to serve their own purposes. Job bemoaned the lack of compassion and true concern of his so-called friends in their merciless interrogation of Job
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