Habel, “The reply of God from the whirlwind … is a theological defense of God the sage.”105 Yahweh’s speeches are intended not to give Job an answer to the question of why he suffers but to reestablish the proper relationship between God and his human creature. Job has sought God to accuse him of injustice (40:8), but God, through a display of his power and wisdom, brings Job to the point where he “repents” (42:1–6). He no longer seeks an answer to the question of his suffering: he simply bends the