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This commentary on Job follows in the tradition of the NICOT series by providing an up-to-date evangelical commentary based on thorough scholarship. John E. Hartley deals carefully with this book whose language, text, and theology are not only among the most intriguing in the Old Testament but also among the most difficult to grasp. Hartley begins with a thorough introduction that treats matters...

(2:7–8; 19:13–19). There the crowds, even the lowest rabble, scorn him as they make him the subject of their taunt songs (16:10; 30:1–15). Since even those who have come to console him turn against him, he feels the treachery of disloyal friends (6:14–23). Spiritually God’s silence terrifies Job (23:8, 9, 15). God’s apparent hostility leads him to imagine that God is a capricious despot, who delights in afflicting his servant (cf. 6:4; 7:17–19; 19:25). Troubled on all sides, Job feels the range of
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