sullies him even though he tries to make himself clean (9:30–31) and hunts him for sport and just to look awesome (10:16). God even destabilizes society (12:16–25), places unreasonable restrictions on his freedom, and keeps him under unrelenting surveillance (13:26–27; cf. 7:18; 14:3a, 5). God destroys hope (14:19c) and acts like a father who disingenuously avows outsiders or worse, evil, while his own children are aggrieved (17:5). Job imagines taking God to court (9:2–3, 14–16; 13:17–18) and even
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