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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...

5 I had heard of you with my ears, but now my eyes have seen you.3 6 Therefore I abase myself4 and recant5 in dust and ashes.” Contritely confessing that he has spoken beyond his knowledge (vv. 2–3), Job submits himself to the God who has appeared to him (vv. 4–6). This short passage blends together many genres: a confession of God’s power and wisdom (v. 2), an admission of limited knowledge (v. 3), an invitation to dispute a case (v. 4), an acknowledgment of Yahweh’s appearing (v. 5), and
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