retribution principle, and he expresses anger over the attempts of the other friends to manufacture some sort of sin in Job’s past. Therefore, he devises a creative solution to provide a resolution. His first move is to redefine the retribution principle. Instead of accepting the normal view that the retribution principle is only a punitive response to past sins (in which case, sins prior to the beginning of the suffering have to be identified), he reconfigures the retribution principle to also include
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